The quark-gluon plasma is an unimaginably hot, soupy liquid. It's so high-energy that the quarks and gluons that make up the ...

These strong interactions can kick single quarks or gluons free from the colliding ... caused by hydrodynamic properties of the "perfect liquid" plasma. When PHENIX scientists observed similar ...

Top quarks follow the rules of special relativity day and night. Is there a time of day or night at which nature's heaviest elementary particle stops obeying Einstein's rules? The answer to that ...

Most top quarks are produced in top–antitop pairs by the strong force. The production rate for this process is substantial (it has a cross-section of about 7 picobarns) and the presence of two ...

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the ...