Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -; a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for ...

RHIC's energetic smashups of gold ions -- the nuclei of gold atoms that have been stripped of their electrons -- routinely create a QGP by "melting" these nuclear building blocks so scientists can ...

This method has worked beautifully for the gold-gold smashups. "We expected we should see 1,000 times the number of energetic particles, or jets, in the most central gold–gold collisions ...