Scientists have found a new way to "see" inside the simplest atomic nuclei to better understand the "glue" that holds the building blocks of matter together. The results, just published in Physical ...

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) usually capture what happens when atomic nuclei smash into one another at nearly the speed of light. But even when ...

Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions indicates gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons. Previous experiments have shown that when ions are accelerated to high energies, ...

CERN’s ALICE experiment found that gluons behave differently at the smallest scales inside lead nuclei, favoring gluon saturation over a competing shadowing explanation. By measuring J/ψ particle ...

Deep inside atomic nuclei, gluons bind quarks together and help determine the structure of visible matter. A CERN study, with a University of Kansas physicist playing a leading role, has now shown ...

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 ...

A new particle detector has passed a crucial test, demonstrating it's ready to start investigating quark-gluon plasma, the ...

Scientists created a Mini Big Bang at CERN, recreating quark-gluon plasma believed to have filled the universe moments after the Big Bang.

Stony Brook University physicists Gabor David and Axel Drees sketch out how a signal of jet energy loss in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) supports the case that ...