Number 85 (Story #2), June 19, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein HIGH ENERGY GOLD beams are now produced at Brookhaven. The gold ions, gold atoms stripped of 78 electrons, are accelerated to an energy of 11.4 GeV per nucleon or 2 TeV per ion, and then doled out to 11 different experiments poised along four beamlines. In Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), now under construction, gold ions will attain energies of 100 Gev per nucleon or 20 TeV per ion. (CERN Courier, June 1992.)