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The STAR detector at the Brookhaven National Laboratory looks like wires and metal crossing over one another in a shallow hole.

Finding False Signals: Refining the Search for Primordial States of Matter

  • by Greg Watry
  • March 24, 2025
  • Science & Technology
In a study appearing in Physical Review C, UC Davis researchers use computational models of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider data to show how scientists can refine their search for signals of the supercritical phase of nuclear matter, divorcing background noise from legitimate signals in the data.
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