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Looking at the strange face of antimatter

Scarcely three weeks ago, it was reported that the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory had achieved the all time (laboratory) high temperature record of 4 trillion degrees Centigrade. [SciTechStory: Taking the temperature of the Big Bang + milliseconds] The significance was that in colliding atoms of gold and producing such [...]
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Taking the temperature of the Big Bang + milliseconds

At the right temperature protons and neutrons ‘melt’ to become a plasma of their constituent particles: quarks and gluons. New experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have now determined that the temperature at which quark-gluon plasma (QGP) forms is approximately 4 trillion degrees [...]
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