U.S., China cooperate on high-energy physics experiment

With $5 million in new U.S. funding and a $2 million commitment from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Rice University physicists are organizing the joint U.S.-Chinese production of an innovative set of detectors for one of the Department of Energy's (DOE) premier particle accelerators, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island, New York. The project represents the most significant collaboration to date between the U.S. and China in high-energy particle physics detector research.