The STAR Detector (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The STAR Detector

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The Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC (STAR), which weighs 1,200 tons and is as large as a house, is used to search for signatures of the quark-gluon plasma, and to measure the behavior of other exotic matter.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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