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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Brookhaven National Laboratory Nobel Laureates, Brookhaven National Laboratory staff, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Jack Steinberger, Tsung-Dao Lee, G. N. Glasoe, Praveen Chaudhari, Raymond Davis, Jr., National Synchrotron Light Source, Chen Ning Yang, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber, Roderick MacKinnon, Samuel C. C. Ting, Paul Falkowski, Val Logsdon Fitch, ISABELLE, New York Blue Gene supercomputer, Jacob Bigeleisen, William Allen Zajc, John G. Cramer, Melvin Schwartz, Joanna S. Fowler, Ernest Courant, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Lewis Joel Greene, Donald J. Metz, Philip M. Morse, Per Bak, Leland John Haworth, Robert Spinrad, Martin Gibbs, National Synchrotron Light Source II, William Higinbotham, Maurice Goldhaber, Milislav Demerec, Panayotis Katsoyannis, Michael Creutz, Robert Mills, George Randolph Kalbfleisch, National Nuclear Data Center, Norman Christ, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Nora Volkow, Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, Stephen E. Schwartz, James Glimm, Irving Kaplan, Harold Hill Smith, Tandem Van de Graaff, Gerhart Friedlander, Cosmotron, Accelerator Test Facility. Excerpt: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, pronounced "rick") is one of two existing heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider in the world. It is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York and operated by an international team of researchers. By using RHIC to collide ions traveling at relativistic speeds, physicists study the primordial form of matter that existed in the universe shortly after the Big Bang. By colliding spin-polarized protons, the spin structure of the proton is explored. RHIC is now the second-highest-energy heavy-ion collider in the world. As of 7 November 2010, the LHC has collided heavy ions of lead at higher energies than RHIC. In 201...
