The legendary American bag of colider is about to fill his last blow

After 25 years of breaking gold nuclei, along with light speeds, the relativistic heavy ion clash of Brukheven’s national laboratory hangs its boots – reconciliating, superconducting magnets.

The last start of the Collider-Heave 25th this week of Long Island, in a song about swans for the revered Collider, which will be inherited, is actually transformed by B-ion Collision of Brookhaven Lab (EIC). During 2025, RHIC physicists would complete the collection of data on the plasma of Quark-Gluon, the particulate soup existed in the earliest days of the universe.

“The original idea behind RIC was to create for the first time on Earth, a state of matter existing in the universe several microseconds after the Big Bang: the plasma of Quark-Gluon, and we did it,” says James Dunlop, the chairman of the Nuclear Physics Division. “This is one of the great heritage – that we actually created it – but the more interesting thing is that its properties were quite different from what we expected to be.”

“You don’t think that when it boils water, you’ll do something that is much smaller than the water itself, right?” Dunlop added. “And that was actually discovered: it is that the Quark-Gluon plasma is behaving as the most perfect fluid we know about.”

For the final implementation of RIC, the main priority is the collisions of gold on gold at energies of 200 billion electronic volts. Calder will conduct these clashes in June and break in July and August to avoid experimenting in the summer heat.

The mileage is planned to gather observations on 10 billion events, according to Lijuwan Rouen, an associate of the star detector of Collider, in a BrookhevenS

“In addition, we plan to use the” triggers “of our sensor detector that analyze the characteristics of real-time collisions-to acquire a significant number of events enriched with high-energy particles,” Rouen added.

Like Cern’s large, Had Collision – which is a huge collision of particles with experiments created around his tour – RHIC has several experiments that draw data from his clashes. At the upcoming Collider’s Sphenix detector, the Collider’s SPENIX detector will try to capture data of about 50 billion collision events to study the Quark-Gluon plasma.

“By combining these RHIC measurements with high energy experiments in the high adrony collision in Europe, which generates QGP at higher temperatures-we can improve our understanding of how this exotic matter behaves as its temperature is changing,” says Megan Connors, physicist in State University.

When RIC’s final execution is completed, Brookheven will pass the collision in the next collision of America, the electronic-ion collision, re-using components of the older setting and adding some new components to accelerate electrons. This collision will be (pardon the pun) accused of looking inside atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons. The colder will specifically look at the strong nuclear power that connects quarks together.

“From RIC to EIC, scientists are mapping the transition of nuclear fabric from hot, dense state, generated in gold-gold collisions and then planning to use electrons-the smallest projectile-to study cold nuclear matter at EIC,” said Sphenix Jin Huang.

Such basic studies have a reflection on the projects of the Earth’s nuclear physics, but also the understanding of the original soup of particles existing at the beginning of the universe. Similar basic studies are the growing tide that raises all boats –provided Scientific laboratories receive resources to support this work.