Superconducting magnets inside the tunnel of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear research at Brookhaven National ...

The sPHENIX particle detector, the newest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has released its first ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today, the absolute heart of particle physics is located in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN’s Large Hadron ...

The twin rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will soon begin colliding ions. On the menu for Run 24: collisions of polarized protons followed later by gold-gold smashups. At RHIC, the ...

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven ...

After a decade of construction, the new-and-improved super Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (sPHENIX) is officially ready for science as it passes a key “standard candle” ...