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Made in Ames: Physics, manufacturing expertise help build nuclear physics experiment

Veronica Canoa Roman, front, and Noah Applegate assembling detector components at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Veronica Canoa Roman, front, and Noah Applegate assembling
detector components at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Iowa State physicists are contributing their expertise and sending thousands of pounds of Ames-manufactured hardware to the sPHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The experiment's particle detector is designed to explore the flowing, liquid-like, quark-gluon plasma. That plasma is an exotic state of matter and part of the universe’s earliest history.

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