Star at RHIC  

STAR stands for Solenoid Tracker at RHIC. It consists of a large experiment conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) located at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Brookhaven National Location

The RHIC accelerator is used to collide gold ions at near speed of light thereby producing matter at extremely high temperature and density in a phase called Quark Gluon Plasma.

The following picture shows the location of BNL on Long Island, NY viewed from space.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Here is an aerial view of the lab.

STAR Experiment

A picture of the STAR detector during the construction.

A view of the STAR detector during  the final phase of its construction.

The Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT): a major component of the Star detector built and used by our group to conduct studies of the production of strange particles in gold-gold collisions.

Link to the Star Web Site - STAR