Taking quark-gluon plasma for a spin may un-break a fundamental symmetry

Enlarge / The STAR detector, with a bunch of physicists thrown in for scale. (credit: Brookhaven National Lab) Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s RHIC particle accelerator have determined that an exotic form of matter produced in their collisions is the most rapidly spinning material ever detected. The material is called a quark-gluon plasma, and it […]