A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...
Nature

Chiral Magnetic Effects in Heavy-Ion Collisions

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) represents a striking manifestation of quantum anomalies in strong interaction systems, whereby a chirality imbalance in the quark–gluon plasma is converted into an ...
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Detecting extreme magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions

Probing the evolution of magnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions can offer key insights into fundamental physical phenomena, including the nature of the early universe. In heavy-ion ...
Phys.org

Scientists use high-energy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear ...