A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...

Jets are created when a quark or gluon within a proton or neutron in one of RHIC's ion beams collides intensely with a quark or gluon in the nuclear particles that make up the beam traveling in ...

These collisions can create a state of matter known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP), where quarks and gluons, the fundamental constituents of protons and neutrons, are no longer confined within ...

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found new evidence that collisions of small nuclei with large ones can create tiny specks of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of ...

Hypernuclei remain a source of fascination due to their rarity in nature and the challenge of creating and studying them in ...

Once a year, the Large Hadron Collider smashes lead ions. But how do scientists get a heavy metal into a particle accelerator ...

In fact, a lot of the proton’s spin could arise from the gluon spin and the motion of partons in the form of orbital angular momentum. A lot of experimental and computational effort is still necessary ...

Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries.