'Fire-streaks' are created in collisions of atomic nuclei

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) At very high energies, the collision of massive atomic nuclei in an accelerator generates hundreds or even thousands of particles that undergo numerous interactions. At the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, Poland it has been shown that the course of this complex process can be represented by a surprisingly simple model: extremely hot matter moves away from the impact poin...