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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is a particle accelerator capable of creating the highest energy heavy ion collisions in the world. It is designed to explore a new state of matter called quark-gluon plasma. The facility is located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.

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