The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is the first and one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider ever built. Located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and used by an international team of researchers, it was the last operating particle collider in the US; by colliding ions traveling at relativistic speeds, physicists use RHIC to study the primordial form of matter that existed in the universe shortly after the Big Bang.
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YearInfobox 'dates' field gives 2000-2026 as the facility's operating span; 2000 is recorded as the year the collider began operation, per the infobox rather than the lead, which states no specific year. Significanceis the first and one of only two operating heavy-ion colliders, and the only spin-polarized proton collider ever built 1 Sources
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