Brookhaven RHIC complex
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The Brookhaven RHIC complex is the larger accelerator and experimental facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory that houses and supports the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its associated infrastructure for high-energy nuclear physics research.
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| Brookhaven RHIC complex canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Brookhaven RHIC complex Context triple: [Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, partOf, Brookhaven RHIC complex]
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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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Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory is a major U.S. Department of Energy research facility on Long Island known for its cutting-edge work in nuclear and particle physics, materials science, and energy research.
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Fermilab Booster
Fermilab Booster is a rapid-cycling synchrotron at Fermilab that accelerates protons to intermediate energies before sending them to higher-energy accelerators and experiments.
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a leading U.S. Department of Energy particle physics research facility known for its high-energy accelerators and contributions to fundamental physics discoveries.
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CERN accelerator complex
The CERN accelerator complex is a network of interconnected particle accelerators and beamlines near Geneva that produce and prepare high-energy particle beams for experiments such as those at the Large Hadron Collider.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brookhaven RHIC complex Target entity description: The Brookhaven RHIC complex is the larger accelerator and experimental facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory that houses and supports the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its associated infrastructure for high-energy nuclear physics research.
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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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Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory is a major U.S. Department of Energy research facility on Long Island known for its cutting-edge work in nuclear and particle physics, materials science, and energy research.
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C.
Fermilab Booster
Fermilab Booster is a rapid-cycling synchrotron at Fermilab that accelerates protons to intermediate energies before sending them to higher-energy accelerators and experiments.
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is a leading U.S. Department of Energy particle physics research facility known for its high-energy accelerators and contributions to fundamental physics discoveries.
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CERN accelerator complex
The CERN accelerator complex is a network of interconnected particle accelerators and beamlines near Geneva that produce and prepare high-energy particle beams for experiments such as those at the Large Hadron Collider.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
particle accelerator complex
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research infrastructure ⓘ |
| beamType |
gold ions
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heavy ions ⓘ light ions ⓘ polarized protons ⓘ |
| commissioned | 1999 ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| energyRange |
up to 200 GeV per nucleon pair in Au+Au collisions
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up to 510 GeV in polarized proton–proton collisions ⓘ |
| fundedBy | United States Department of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
NERFINISHED
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Booster synchrotron NERFINISHED ⓘ RHIC beamlines ⓘ RHIC control room ⓘ RHIC experimental detectors ⓘ RHIC experimental halls ⓘ RHIC injector chain ⓘ RHIC interaction regions ⓘ Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider NERFINISHED ⓘ Tandem Van de Graaff accelerators NERFINISHED ⓘ beam dump systems ⓘ beam injection systems ⓘ cryogenic systems ⓘ superconducting magnet systems ⓘ |
| hosts |
BRAHMS experiment
NERFINISHED
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PHENIX experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ PHOBOS experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider NERFINISHED ⓘ STAR experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ sPHENIX experiment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Long Island
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New York State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Upton, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableResult |
discovery of strongly coupled quark–gluon liquid behavior
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evidence for creation of quark–gluon plasma ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Brookhaven National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Brookhaven National Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
high-energy nuclear physics research
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relativistic heavy-ion collisions ⓘ spin physics with polarized protons ⓘ study of quark–gluon plasma ⓘ |
| researchField |
high-energy physics
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nuclear physics ⓘ particle physics ⓘ |
| status | operational ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
cryogenic cooling
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radio-frequency cavities ⓘ superconducting magnets ⓘ |
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Subject: Brookhaven RHIC complex Description of subject: The Brookhaven RHIC complex is the larger accelerator and experimental facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory that houses and supports the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its associated infrastructure for high-energy nuclear physics research.
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