STAR detector (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

STAR detector

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Scientists used the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), shown here, to track how certain jets of particles lose energy in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created when the nuclei of gold atoms collide in the center of the detector.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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