Aerial View of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (IMAGE)

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Aerial View of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory

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This is an aerial view of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the only machine in the world capable of colliding beams of polarized protons -- protons whose individual spins are aligned in a particular direction--to tease out how the protons' inner building blocks, quarks and gluons, contribute to proton spin.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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