Thanks to new detector developments, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will continue data collection in 2024, recording up to five thousand collisions per second, with the participation of physicists from ELTE. This special laboratory, studying the matter of the first millisecond after the Big Bang (the Quark-Gluon Plasma), will investigate collisions of polarized protons this year. Researchers aim to gain a deeper understanding of the internal structure of the fundamental building blocks of atomic nuclei. Additionally, they will also study collisions of gold nuclei to map the properties of quark matter. 

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Source: https://ttk.elte.hu/en/