{"id":1738,"date":"2018-12-10T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2018-12-10T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:54:12","slug":"physics-team-announces-incredible-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2018\/12\/10\/physics-team-announces-incredible-achievement\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Team Announces Incredible Achievement!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PHENIX Collaboration, a team of Physics researchers including ACU Faculty Rusty Towell, Donald Isenhower, and Michael Daugherity, as well as ACU students Hannah Hamilton, Cecily Towell, and Daniel Jumper, recently published the paper, &#8220;Creation of quark-gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries,&#8221; in NATURE Physics. In a media release by Brookhaven National Laboratory, they explain that the study provides &#8220;evidence that collisions of miniscule [sic] projectiles with gold nuclei create tiny specks of the perfect fluid that filled the early universe.&#8221; You can read the f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/newsroom\/news.php?a=113171\">ull media release here<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-018-0360-0\">NATURE article can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the PHENIX Team! This is an incredible achievement for our faculty and students, alike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PHENIX Collaboration, a team of Physics researchers including ACU Faculty Rusty Towell, Donald Isenhower, and Michael Daugherity, as well as ACU students Hannah Hamilton, Cecily Towell, and Daniel Jumper, recently published the paper, &#8220;Creation of quark-gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries,&#8221; in NATURE Physics. In a media release by Brookhaven National Laboratory, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,73647,76751,76761,76729],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-faculty-mentor","category-feature","category-stem","category-student-researcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}