{"id":221689,"date":"2025-09-10T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/an-american-collider-is-finally-ready-to-recreate-matter-from-the-beginning-of-time"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:16:40","slug":"an-american-collider-is-finally-ready-to-recreate-matter-from-the-beginning-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/an-american-collider-is-finally-ready-to-recreate-matter-from-the-beginning-of-time","title":{"rendered":"An American Collider Is Finally Ready to Recreate Matter from the Beginning of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, the absolute heart of particle physics is located in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider. This instrument\u2019s unmatched size, power, and precision make it the ultimate tool for exploring high-energy particle physics. However, one tool can\u2019t do everything, and even immensely useful ones like the LHC sometimes need a helping hand.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2019s (BNL) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) comes in. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy approved an upgrade to the Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (PHENIX)\u2014an instrument originally designed to explore the components of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that formed one millionth of a second after the Big Bang. According to Edward O\u2019Brien<\/a> (a physicist from BNL), the idea behind this super PHENIX, or sPHENIX, was to \u201cprovide physics results which focused on jets and heavy flavor [of quarks] that complemented and overlapped with the Heavy Ion physics results being generated by the experiments at the CERN<\/a> Large Hadron Collider.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, the absolute heart of particle physics is located in Geneva, Switzerland at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider. This instrument\u2019s unmatched size, power, and precision make it the ultimate tool for exploring high-energy particle physics. However, one tool can\u2019t do everything, and even immensely useful ones like the LHC sometimes need a helping hand. That\u2019s where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}