Editing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (section)

==Financial information==
The RHIC project was 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.<ref name=Harrison2003/>

For fiscal year 2006 the operational budget was reduced by 16.1 million U.S. dollars from the previous year, to 115.5 million U.S. dollars. Though operation under the fiscal year 2006 federal budget cut<ref>
{{cite web
 |date=22 November 2005
 |title=Senators Express Concern Over Layoffs and Run Times at RHIC and Jefferson Lab
 |url=http://www.aip.org/fyi/2005/168.html
 |work=FYI
 |issue=168
 |publisher=[[American Institute of Physics]] 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002124554/http://www.aip.org/fyi/2005/168.html
 |archive-date=2013-10-02
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
 |author=N. Canavor
 |date=27 November 2005
 |title=Research Labs Experiencing Budget Woes
 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20713F73C550C748EDDA80994DD404482
 |website=[[The New York Times]]
 |access-date=2017-01-24
}}</ref> 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]].<ref>
{{cite magazine
 |date=March 2006
 |title=JLab, Brookhaven Hope for Turnaround After Severe Budget Cuts Last Year
 |url=http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200603/budget-cuts.cfm
 |magazine=APS News
 |volume=15 |issue=3
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 |date=18 January 2006
 |title=Brookhaven Receives Outside Funding for RHIC
 |url=https://www.aip.org/fyi/2006/brookhaven-receives-outside-funding-rhic
 |publisher=[[American Institute of Physics]]
 |access-date=2017-01-24}}</ref>