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In this chapter, we introduce the experiment of relativistic heavy ion collision. We introduce the facility and detectors used for data taking. We also introduce the kinematic variables measured for this analysis.

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Wang, Q. (2013). Experiment. In: Charge Multiplicity Asymmetry Correlation Study Searching for Local Parity Violation at RHIC for STAR Collaboration. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00756-4_2

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