RHIC The Perfect Liquid

Multimedia · Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:987133

Evidence to date suggests that gold-gold collisions the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven are indeed creating a new state of hot, dense matter, but one quite different and even more remarkable than had been predicted. Instead of behaving like a gas of free quarks and gluons, as was expected, the matter created in RHIC's heavy ion collisions appears to be more like a "perfect" liquid.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 987133
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANIMATION PHYSICS
COLLIDER
GLUONS
GOLD IONS
PLASMA ACCELERATOR
QUARK