Jets are created when a quark or gluon within a proton or neutron in one ... If the collision doesn't melt the nuclear matter into a soup of free quarks and gluons—the QGP—then these energetic ...

The aim is to form quark–gluon plasma (QGP) — a soup of quarks and gluons — and to study its properties. Heavy-ion physicists have waited many years for a facility such as RHIC, so the ...

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...