"..., but my best friend is truth." - I. Newton

Welcome to STAR site!

The strong interaction, one of the four fundamental forces, is described by the theory of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). STAR is a general-purpose detector, equipped with large acceptance, excellent particle identification and fast data taking, at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for studying the QCD phenomena. The primary physics goals of the experiment are (i) study new form of matter with quark and gluon degrees of freedom; (ii) explore the complex and rich QCD phase structures; (iii) search for the origin of the spin in proton. During the past eight years, the STAR experiment has published more than 100 scientific papers and trained more than 100 Ph.D students.

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