Using some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a group of theorists has produced a major advance in the field of nuclear physics--a calculation of the "heavy quark diffusion coefficient." This number describes how quickly a melted soup of quarks and gluons--the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which are set free in collisions of nuclei at powerful particle colliders--transfers its momentum to heavy quarks.
Using some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, a group of theorists has produced a major advance in the field of nuclear physics--a calculation of the "heavy quark diffusion coefficient." This number describes how quickly a melted soup of quarks and gluons--the building blocks of protons and neutrons, which are set free in collisions of nuclei at powerful particle colliders--transfers its momentum to heavy quarks.
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