Hitting Nuclei with Light May Create Fluid Primordial Matter (IMAGE)

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Hitting Nuclei with Light May Create Fluid Primordial Matter

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This graphic shows the energy density (yellow is high; purple is low) at different times during the hydrodynamic evolution of matter created in a collision of a lead ion (moving to the left) with a photon emitted from another lead ion (moving to the right

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Image courtesy of Chun Shen, Wayne State University

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Image courtesy of Chun Shen, Wayne State University

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