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New measurements of how particles flow from collisions of different types of particles at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have provided new insights into the origin of the shape of hot specks of matter generated in these…

Physicists report new evidence that production of an exotic state of matter in collisions of gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- an atom-smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National…

Nuclear physicists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory -- have new evidence that particles called…

It could hardly be more complicated: tiny particles whir around wildly with extremely high energy, countless interactions occur in the tangled mess of quantum particles, and this results in a state of matter known as "quark-gluon plasma."…

In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons -- elementary particles that briefly glommed together in countless combinations before cooling and settling into…