Physicists are building a new machine--an Electron-Ion Collider--to look inside the protons and neutrons that make up the atomic nucleus. The EIC will be a particle accelerator that collides electrons with protons and nuclei to produce snapshots of those particles' internal structure.| www.bnl.gov
RHIC is a tool for studying the fundamental properties of matter. By looking back to a time before protons and neutrons existed, it can study nature’s strongest force and determine how the universe evolved.| www.bnl.gov
