Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment (IMAGE)
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New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force in a hot soup of quarks and gluons (background) may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons, a quark-antiquark pair held together by the strong force (foreground).
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Image courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory
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