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Copper vs. Copper at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Middleweight matchup to provide control data in exploration of new form of matterScientists searching for evidence that a particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy`s Brookhaven National Laboratory has created a new form of matter not seen since the Big Bang and eager to study its properties have begun using a new experimental probe, collisions between two beams of copper ions. The use of intermediate size nuclei is expected to result in intermediate energy density - not as high as in earlier runs colliding two beams of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), but more than was produced by colliding a beam of gold ions with much lighter deuterons.
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