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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics


After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on

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