Swirly Fluid of Quark Gluon Plasma (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Swirly Fluid of Quark Gluon Plasma

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Tracking particle spins reveals that the quark-gluon plasma created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is more swirly than the cores of super-cell tornados, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, or any other fluid!

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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