gluon saturation with increasing energy (IMAGE)

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gluon saturation with increasing energy

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Members of the STAR collaboration report new data that indicate nuclei accelerated to very high energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) may be reaching a state where gluons are starting to saturate.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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