Financial Information
The RHIC project is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics. It had a line-item budget of 616.6 million U.S. dollars. The annual operational budgets were:
- fiscal year 2005: 131.6 million U.S. dollars
- fiscal year 2006: 115.5 million U.S. dollars
- fiscal year 2007, requested: 143.3 million U.S. dollars
The total investment by 2005 is approximately 1.1 billion U.S. dollars. Though operation under the fiscal year 2006 federal budget cut was uncertain, a key portion of the operational cost (13 million U.S. dollars) was contributed privately by a group close to Renaissance Technologies of East Setauket, New York.
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