Analysis of lightweight nuclei from gold ion collisions offers insight into primordial matter phase changes
Friday, June 2, 2023 - 09:38
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists analyzing data from gold ion smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, are searching for evidence that nails down a so-called critical point in the way nuclear matter changes from one phase to another.