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Scientists used the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to systematically search through data from collisions at different energies, looking for signs that the production of quark-gluon plasma turns off. That sign shows up as a sign change in data on net proton production at the lowest collision energy.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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