COOL'25 - the 15th International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics

Session

Closing Presentation

FRB

31 Oct 2025, 10:45

Wang Center

55. 25 Years of RHIC Operations (FRB1)

Wolfram Fischer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

31/10/2025, 10:45

COOL'25

Invited Oral Presentation

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory began operation 25 years ago, initiating a program of high-energy ion collisions that has since evolved in remarkable ways. Within a few years, polarized proton collisions were introduced, and over the following decades RHIC continuously expanded its capabilities—achieving higher luminosity, greater polarization, and...