Time Projection Chamber

Part of the sPHENIX detector, the Time Projection Chamber allows nuclear physicists to measure the momentum of charged particles streaming from collisions produced in Brookhaven Lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). sPHENIX is a radical makeover of the PHENIX experiment, one of the original detectors designed to collect data at RHIC. It includes many new components that significantly enhance scientists’ ability to learn about quark-gluon plasma (QGP), an exotic form of nuclear matter created in RHIC’s energetic particle smashups.

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