Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark-gluon plasma
Creating small circular, elliptical, and triangular droplets of quark-gluon plasma
The experimental study of the collisions of heavy nuclei at relativistic energies has established the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of hot, dense nuclear matter in which quarks and gluons are not bound into hadrons. In this state, matter behaves as a nearly inviscid fluid that efficiently …