Gabor David and Axel Drees (IMAGE)

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Gabor David and Axel Drees

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Stony Brook University physicists Gabor David and Axel Drees sketch out how a signal of jet energy loss in deuteron-gold collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) supports the case that these collisions create small specks of quark-gluon plasma, a form of matter that permeated the early universe.

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Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory

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