Physicists follow the sequential "melting" of the wye

Physicists observe the sequential “melting” of the wye

Scientists used the STAR detector on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to trace how upsilon particles dissociate in quark-gluon plasma. These upsilons include a backside quark and an antibottom quark held collectively by gluons with totally different binding energies: a tightly certain floor state (left), an intermediate manifold (proper), and the biggest, least certain …

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