Recreating the Big Bang: Tiny Collisions Reveal Droplets of the Universe’s First Matter

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei with large ones can produce tiny droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter believed to have existed moments after the Big Bang. A recent analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion [...]

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