Portal:Physics/2006 Selected pictures

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This is an archive of entries that appeared on Portal:Physics's Selected Picture section in 2006.

January 17, 2006 - First collision of two 100GeV Gold ions
Particles erupt from the collision point of two relativistic (100GeV) gold ions in the STAR detector of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Electrically charged particles are discernable by the curves they trace in the detector's magnetic field.

March 11, 2006 - Z-pinch
Z-pinch at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine. Due to the extremely high voltage, the power feeding equipment is submerged in concentric chambers of 540,000 gallons of transformer oil and 600,000 gallons of deionized water, which act as insulators. Nevertheless, impressive lightning, referred to as "arcs and sparks", can be seen over the power feeds.