Searching for Mach Waves Inside a Perfect Liquid (IMAGE)

DOE/US Department of Energy

Searching for Mach Waves Inside a Perfect Liquid

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A snapshot of the Mach wave inside the quark-gluon plasma in nuclear collisions. An energetic particle moving right is accompanied by a photon moving left. Colors represent the local energy density of the Mach-cone wave.

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Image provided by X.-N. Wang

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