#Nuclear Physics

The End of an Era: US's Only Particle Collider, RHIC, Closes After 25 Years of Unlocking the Early Universe

After a quarter-century of groundbreaking research, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the US's sole operating particle collider, has officially concluded its operations. This momentous closure marks the end of an extraordinary era of discovery into the universe's earliest moments, paving the way for the next generation of physics exploration.