How Do Quark-Gluon-Plasma Fireballs Explode into Hadrons?
Department of Energy, Office of ScienceColliding two heavy nuclei produces quark-gluon fireballs from which subatomic particles emerge. Fluctuations in the number of these particles from collision to collision carry important information about the QGP. Researchers used an approach called the maximum entropy principle to provide a crucial connection between experimental observations and the hydrodynamics of the QGP fireball.