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Scientists Serve Up 'Perfect' Liquid New state of matter more remarkable than predicted -- raising many new questionsThe four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a giant atom "smasher" located at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Brookhaven National Laboratory -- say they`ve created a new state of hot, dense matter out of the quarks and gluons that are the basic particles of atomic nuclei, but it is a state quite different and even more remarkable than had been predicted. In peer-reviewed papers summarizing the first three years of RHIC findings, the scientists say that instead of behaving like a gas of free quarks and gluons, as was expected, the matter created in RHIC`s heavy ion collisions appears to be more like a liquid.
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