The STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) detector is a particle physics experiment located at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. It is designed to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter believed to have existed shortly after the Big Bang when quarks and gluons were not confined within protons and neutrons.
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