﻿ 2002-now | APS Historic Site Timeline  BNL Timeline   RHIC
tunnel   The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) starts
running and after years of data analysis, reveals a new state of
matter called quark-gluon plasma. Surprisingly, instead of
behaving like a gas, as scientists had predicted, this matter
appears to be more like a liquid, a “perfect” liquid with
virtually no viscosity. Powered by the same initial particle
injection line that feeds RHIC, the NASA Space Radiation
Laboratory startup gives a boost to scientists studying the
effects of simulated space radiation on biological and physical
systems.  After collecting data from more than 1 billion decay
events in Brookhaven’s muon g-2 experiment, physicists announce
a possible violation of the Standard Model.  Across the ocean,
Brookhaven physicists and engineers play a major role in the
startup of the world’s most powerful particle smasher, the Large
Hadron Collider at CERN. In Canada, Brookhaven scientists take
part in the Sudbury Neutrino Observator