At a ceremony marking the beginning of spin physics at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the US laboratory renewed its collaboration agreement with Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) for a further 5 years. Initially established in 1995, the RIKEN-BNL agreement has been instrumental in establishing the spin-physics programme at RHIC, and led to the establishment of the RIKEN-BNL Research Center (RBRC) in 1997.
