Researchers Probe High-Density Nuclear Matter Mimicking Early Universe State

Ask our AI Assistant Search Menu Posted in | News | Quantum Physics Researchers Probe High-Density Nuclear Matter Mimicking Early Universe State Download PDF Copy Request Quote Add AZoQuantum on Google as a preferred source Brookhaven National Laboratory Sep 24 2026 Reviewed Scientists using the STAR detector to study particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found an intriguing dip in their data in a relatively unexplored region of the nuclear phase diagram - a map of how nuclear matter behaves under various conditions of temperature and density. The dip appears in data tracking collision-by-collision variations in the momenta of particles emerging from collisions between gold nuclei at RHIC, near RHIC's lowest collision energies.