STAR Time Projection CHamber (IMAGE)

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STAR Time Projection CHamber

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The "heart" of the STAR detector at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is the Time Projection Chamber, which tracks and identifies particles emerging from ion collisions.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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