Oxygen collisions bridge the gap between small and large collision systems (IMAGE)

Sophia University

Oxygen collisions bridge the gap between small and large collision systems

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Oxygen nuclei, with a mass number of 16, provide an intermediate collision system between proton–proton and heavy-ion collisions, offering a way to investigate how quark–gluon matter emerges and becomes fluid-like.

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Naoya Ito from Sophia University, Japan

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