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Brookhaven Starts Building the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

Bertram M. Schwarzschild

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Brookhaven has finally been allowed to start building RHIC, the relativistic heavy-ion collider designed to occupy the 4-km-circumference tunnel left vacant eight years ago by the cancellation of the Colliding Beam Accelerator project. CBA, née Isabelle, was to have been a 200×200-GeV proton-proton collider, but construction never got beyond the civil engineering stage.

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Key concepts: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Collider, Physics, Nuclear physics, National laboratory, Proton, Heavy ion, Particle accelerator