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The ring-imaging Cherenkov, or RICH, detector is a device for identifying the type of an electrically charged subatomic particle of known momentum, that traverses a transparent refractive medium, by measurement of the presence and characteristics of the Cherenkov radiation emitted during that traversal. RICH detectors were first developed in the 1980s and are used in high energy elementary particle-, nuclear- and astro-physics experiments.

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-Ring imaging Cherenkov counter. A detector giving information on the speed of particles.
+The '''ring-imaging Cherenkov''', or '''RICH''', detector is a device for identifying the type of an electrically charged subatomic particle of known momentum, that traverses a transparent refractive medium, by measurement of the presence and characteristics of the Cherenkov radiation emitted during that traversal. RICH detectors were first developed in the 1980s and are used in high energy elementary particle-, nuclear- and astro-physics experiments.
-RICH detectors were first developed in the 1980s and are used in high energy elementary particle-, nuclear- and astro-physics experiments. For more information, see [[wikipedia:Ring-imaging_Cherenkov_detector|Wikipedia]].
+For more information, see [[wikipedia:Ring-imaging_Cherenkov_detector|Wikipedia]].
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