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Rice University

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Rice University physics professor Wei Li (left) and postdoctoral research associate Shuai Yang teamed with colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) Compact Muon Solenoid experiment to study matter-generating collisions of light that occurred in heavy ion experiments at LHC. Yang lead-authored a newly published study that detailed how the departure angle of debris from the smashups is subtly distorted by quantum interference patterns prior to impact. The findings will help physicists accurately interpret future experiments aimed at finding "new physics" beyond the Standard Model.

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