A new particle detector has passed a crucial test that shows it is ready to detect the “ashes” left over from a unique primordial soup that filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang. The sPHENIX detector is the latest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ring accelerator located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. The …
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