This image shows a snapshot of the order parameter in a fluctuating quark gluon liquid. Green regions are in the quark gluon phase, blue regions in the hadron phase. Observing critical fluctuation in ...

Physicists found signs of a key shift in nuclear matter, a potential "tipping point." The study narrows where the strong ...

Exploring the gluon saturation in a large nucleus is one of the goals of the future Electron-Ion Collider. Researchers proposed a nucleon energy-energy correlation approach that provides a unique ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group that has made significant advances in modeling heavy ion collisions. New ...

A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The resultant measurement, which was extracted from experimental data taken at the ...

After a decade of construction, the new-and-improved super Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment (sPHENIX) is officially ready for science as it passes a key “standard candle” ...

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...

A groundbreaking particle detector in New York, known as sPHENIX, has successfully passed a crucial standard candle test, confirming its readiness for advanced exploration of the quark-gluon plasma ...

For the first time, quarks and gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by the existence of protons and neutrons. The temporary pair of correlated ...