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Giant US collider plans to smash 50 billion gold atoms after 25 years of research
The team has used RHIC to smash the nuclei of gold atoms at near-light speed since 2000, collecting data to recreate and study quark-gluon plasma (QGP or quark soup). This hot, de ...
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) enters 25th and final run
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, entered its 25th and final ...
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Nuclear Physics Research at UMass Lowell
The "fundamental" science program focuses on key questions in current nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics, with experiments carried out at national (and international) heavy-ion accelerator ...
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High-energy heavy ion collisions reveal subtleties of nuclear structure at US lab
Scientists used high-energy heavy ion collisions to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. They ...