relativistic heavy ion collider |
BRAHMS | |
One of RHIC's
two smaller detectors is the Broad Range Hadron Magnetic
Spectrometer, or "BRAHMS". This device studies particles called
charged hadrons as they pass through detectors called spectrometers.
BRAHMS measures only a small number of particles emerging from a
specific set of angles during each collision. The momentum, energy
and other characteristics of the particles are measured very
precisely.
BRAHMS has 51 participants from 14 institutions in eight
countries. BRAHMS is located at the 2 o'clock
position on the RHIC ring.
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Experimental Area | |
Physicists inside the BRAHMS experimental area.
Visual representation of the data output from the BRAHMS detector during the first gold ion collisions at RHIC. |