Credit: Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) track protons, neutrons, and other subatomic particles produced by ion collisions to better understand quark-gluon plasma.
Credit: Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
This diagram plots out what scientists theorize about quark-gluon plasma’s phases using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Baryon density is the density of the particles in the matter.