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DOE national laboratory in Upton, NY, operating the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and conducting nuclear, particle and materials science research.
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Brookhaven's STAR experiment found a dip in collision-to-collision particle-flow fluctuations across about 1 billion gold collisions at 3 to 7.7 GeV. The researchers call it a hint of nuclear matter's long-sought critical point, short of proof.
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CMS physicists have measured, for the first time, the diffusion wakes jets leave behind in quark-gluon plasma, 20 years after they were first predicted. The result adds a second test of the fluid picture of the matter that filled the universe for its first microseconds.
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STAR's proxy for temperature swings between gold-gold collisions stops falling and turns back up at the bottom of RHIC's energy range, a result now fixed in a dataset the collider finished taking in 2026.
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The MagLab's 21-tesla spectrometer found tens of thousands of carbon-based molecules in two meteorites, and noncontact atomic force microscopy at Brookhaven pinned down the shape of a handful of them.
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Brookhaven's new station at NSLS-II records density, elemental maps, crystal order and disordered structure from one intact specimen, so the four measurements line up on the same region of the same sample.
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Transition-edge sensors cooled near absolute zero measured the X-ray lines that sit inside the gamma-ray band used to identify nuclear material. Anyone who wants one also has to buy the refrigerator that keeps it cold.
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Brookhaven says its Quantum Lighthouse is the first permanent free-space optical link on the network. The 13-mile air hop is running; the 30-mile crossing to Yale is still pending.
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The open-air hop carried entangled pairs only at night, and each end needed a purpose-built rooftop terminal. What it buys is wavelengths that telecom fiber does not serve.
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A Science paper from RHIC's STAR detector backs a 1996 proposal that a Y-shaped gluon junction carries baryon number. The collider stopped running in early 2026, so the dataset is closed.
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Brookhaven's STAR collaboration reports in Science that baryon number rides on a Y-shaped gluon junction. The one-third-per-quark picture in the textbooks would have to go.
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