Brookhaven’s 1,000-ton sPHENIX detector proves ready to unlock secrets of the Big Bang

A powerful 1,000-ton particle detector, sPHENIX, has successfully passed an important test, proving it is ready for its primary mission — to study the origins of the universe. The detector, which is located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, is designed to precisely measure the aftermath of high-speed particle collisions in order
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