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A computer rendering of a collision of two beams of gold ions in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The beams travel in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light before colliding. The PHENIX detector (below) records many different particles emerging from RHIC collisions, including photons, electrons, muons, and quark-containing particles called hadrons. (Courtesy: Brookhaven National Laboratory)
VANDERBILT (US)—Scientists have created an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It’s the hottest temperature ever achieved in a laboratory and 250,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun. Continue…
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The science (fiction) of ‘Angels & Demons’
A technician helps install the pixel detector within the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. A team of Iowa State physicists is contributing to work on the pixel detector, the innermost part of the ATLAS experiment. (Credit: Claudia Marcelloni/European Organization for Nuclear Research)
