* Astronomy

Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow

By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and from other sites are gaining new insights about fundamental physics. They achieved this by smashing together gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
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