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 ...

High-energy accelerators usually collide particles such as electrons or protons, but in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in operation since 2000 ...

June 8, 2022 — Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have revealed how certain particle-jets lose energy as they traverse the unique form of ...

At Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL's) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), billions of gold ions race through magnets at nearly the speed of light. Thousands of times per second ...

Hypernuclei remain a source of fascination due to their rarity in nature and the challenge of creating and studying them in ...

Experiments like the LHC create them in large quantities, though, and this is where detectors of ALICE and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) try to spot and study them. Earlier this year ...

Above this temperature, matter is in a new phase of matter, called the quark-gluon plasma. The properties of this quark-gluon plasma are currently investigated using experiments at the Relativistic ...

PHENIX Collaboration Spokesperson Yasuyuki Akiba at the PHENIX detector, which collected data at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) from 2000 to 2016. A new analysis of PHENIX data provides ...