{"id":222675,"date":"2025-09-30T04:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/high-order-analysis-reveals-more-signs-of-phase-change-turbulence-in-nuclear-matter"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:30:39","slug":"high-order-analysis-reveals-more-signs-of-phase-change-turbulence-in-nuclear-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/high-order-analysis-reveals-more-signs-of-phase-change-turbulence-in-nuclear-matter","title":{"rendered":"High-order analysis reveals more signs of phase-change \u2018turbulence\u2019 in nuclear matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-order-analysis-reveals-more-signs-of-phase-change-turbulence-in-nuclear-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), have published a new high-precision analysis of data on the number of protons produced in gold-ion smashups over a range of energies.<\/p>\n<p>The results, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/accepted\/10.1103\/9l69-2d7p\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, suggest scientists have observed one part of a key signature of a \u201ccritical point.\u201d That\u2019s a unique point on the \u201cmap\u201d of nuclear phases that marks a change in the way quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, transition from one phase of matter to another.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering the critical point has been a central goal of research at RHIC, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nuclear+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nuclear physics<\/a> research at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Like centuries-old efforts to map out the solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of substances like water, it\u2019s considered essential for fully understanding and describing the quark-gluon plasma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), have published a new high-precision analysis of data on the number of protons produced in gold-ion smashups over a range of energies. The results, published in Physical Review Letters, suggest scientists have [\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-222675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222675","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=222675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}