Scientists See Evidence of First-Order Phase Change in Nuclear Matter (IMAGE)
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Particle tracks from a low-energy collision of a gold ion with a fixed gold target in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) help scientists map the transition of ordinary nuclear matter to a hot soup of free quarks and gluons.
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Image courtesy of the STAR Collaboration
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