Geometric Flow Patterns in Particle Collisions (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Geometric Flow Patterns in Particle Collisions

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The upper panel of this image represents initial hot spots created by collisions of one, two, and three-particle ions with heavy nuclei. The lower panel shows the geometrical patterns of particle flow that would be expected if the small-particle collisions are creating tiny hot spots of quark-gluon plasma.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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