Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is a major particle accelerator that collides heavy ions at near-light speeds to study quark-gluon plasma and the fundamental properties of nuclear matter.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider canonical | 3 |
| BNL RHIC experiments | 1 |
| RHIC | 1 |
| Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) | 1 |
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Target entity: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Context triple: [Brookhaven National Laboratory, hostFacility, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]
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A Large Ion Collider Experiment
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is a major detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and quark–gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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Proton Synchrotron Booster
The Proton Synchrotron Booster is a circular particle accelerator at CERN that increases the energy of protons from the linear accelerator before injecting them into larger synchrotrons in the accelerator complex.
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Proton Synchrotron
The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
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LHCf
LHCf is a CERN experiment at the Large Hadron Collider that studies forward particles produced in proton–proton collisions to improve our understanding of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Target entity description: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is a major particle accelerator that collides heavy ions at near-light speeds to study quark-gluon plasma and the fundamental properties of nuclear matter.
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A.
A Large Ion Collider Experiment
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is a major detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and quark–gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
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Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, used to smash subatomic particles together at unprecedented energies to study fundamental physics, including the Higgs boson.
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C.
Proton Synchrotron Booster
The Proton Synchrotron Booster is a circular particle accelerator at CERN that increases the energy of protons from the linear accelerator before injecting them into larger synchrotrons in the accelerator complex.
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Proton Synchrotron
The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
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E.
LHCf
LHCf is a CERN experiment at the Large Hadron Collider that studies forward particles produced in proton–proton collisions to improve our understanding of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
circular accelerator
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collider ⓘ particle accelerator ⓘ research facility ⓘ |
| acceleratesParticleType |
gold nuclei
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heavy ions ⓘ polarized protons ⓘ protons ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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surface form:
RHIC
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| collides |
copper–copper ions
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deuteron–gold ions ⓘ gold–gold ions ⓘ proton–proton beams ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
U.S. Department of Energy
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surface form:
United States Department of Energy
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| constructionStartDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| designedToStudy |
properties of nuclear matter
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quantum chromodynamics ⓘ quark–gluon plasma ⓘ strong interaction ⓘ |
| firstBeamYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| firstCollisionsYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| fundedBy |
U.S. Department of Energy
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surface form:
United States Department of Energy
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| hasBeamEnergyPerNucleon | up to 100 GeV per nucleon ⓘ |
| hasExperiment |
BNL E852
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BRAHMS ⓘ PHENIX ⓘ PHOBOS ⓘ PP2PP ⓘ STAR ⓘ sPHENIX ⓘ |
| hasTunnelShape | ring ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Upton, New York ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| maximumCenterOfMassEnergyPerNucleonPair | 200 GeV ⓘ |
| maximumCenterOfMassEnergyProtonProton | 500 GeV ⓘ |
| notableDiscovery | creation of quark–gluon plasma behaving like a nearly perfect liquid ⓘ |
| notableResult |
elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions
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evidence for strongly coupled quark–gluon plasma ⓘ jet quenching in dense nuclear matter ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Brookhaven National Laboratory ⓘ |
| partOf | Brookhaven RHIC complex ⓘ |
| researchField |
high-energy nuclear physics
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particle physics ⓘ spin physics ⓘ |
| ringCircumference |
3.8 kilometers
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3834 meters ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usedFor |
collider experiments
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studies of early-universe conditions ⓘ |
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Subject: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Description of subject: The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is a major particle accelerator that collides heavy ions at near-light speeds to study quark-gluon plasma and the fundamental properties of nuclear matter.
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