Yasuyuki Akiba (IMAGE)

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Yasuyuki Akiba

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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 fresh evidence that collisions of small particles with large nuclei create small specks of quark-gluon plasma.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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