Tracking particles created in subatomic smashups takes precision. So before the components that get up detectors at colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) procure the chance to see a single collision, physicists want to be sure they are up to the task. A group of physicists and students hoping to one day build a new detector at RHIC—a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research at the U.
S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory—recently spent time at DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory putting key particle-tracking components to the test.
Source: phys.org