For the RHICs final run, the top priority is gold-on-gold collisions at energies of 200 billion electron volts.
The collider will specifically scrutinize the strong nuclear force, which binds quarks together.
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Superconducting magnets in the RHIC tunnel.Photo: Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Its One Particle Accelerator, Michael.
What Could It Cost$17 Billion?
CERN says its Future Circular Collider has no technical hurdlesthough the expected costs are exorbitant.
An artist’s renderings of the RHIC (left) and the next-generation EIC (right). Illustration: Valerie A. Lentz/Brookhaven National Laboratory
