A team of physicists and engineers at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has tested a 20-ton cylindrical magnet that could form the heart of an upgraded particle detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Which of the following would the magnet do?
A.
Bend the trajectories of charged particles emerging from proton and ion collisions
B.
Form new ions in the collider
C.
Heat charged particles in the collider
D.
Cool charged particles in the collider
