{"id":215793,"date":"2025-06-12T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/heres-what-happens-when-quark-gluon-plasma-splashes-during-the-most-energetic-particle-collisions"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:21:08","slug":"heres-what-happens-when-quark-gluon-plasma-splashes-during-the-most-energetic-particle-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/heres-what-happens-when-quark-gluon-plasma-splashes-during-the-most-energetic-particle-collisions","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what happens when quark-gluon plasma \u2018splashes\u2019 during the most energetic particle collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an \u201catom smasher\u201d at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the primordial soup generated in the most energetic particle collisions \u201csplashes\u201d sideways when it is hit by a jet of energetic particles.<\/p>\n

The evidence comes from the first measurement at RHIC of reconstructed jets<\/a> produced in collisions back-to-back with photons, particles of light. Scientists have long anticipated using measurements of photon-correlated jets to study the matter generated in these collisions. The findings, described in two papers just published in Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a> and Physical Review C<\/i><\/a>, offer fresh insight into this primordial soup, which is known as a quark-gluon plasma<\/a> (QGP)\u2014and raise new questions about its extraordinary properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeasuring reconstructed jets gives us unique views of how the strongly interacting plasma responds as the jets move through it,\u201d said Peter Jacobs, a physicist at DOE\u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and member of RHIC\u2019s STAR Collaboration, which published these results. \u201cInstead of focusing on what happens to the jet, we want to turn it around and see what the jet can tell us about the QGP.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an \u201catom smasher\u201d at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the primordial soup generated in the most energetic particle collisions \u201csplashes\u201d sideways when it is hit by a jet of energetic particles. The evidence comes from the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}