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Science 11 February 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5455, pp. 949 - 951
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5455.949b
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
CERN Stakes Claim on New State of Matter

Charles Seife

On Thursday, scientists at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, were expected to announce "compelling evidence" of a new state of matter that might be a blazing hot jumble of particles known as a quark-gluon plasma. But many physicists are skeptical. Decisive evidence of such a plasma might appear after a new accelerator known as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, up to five times as powerful as the CERN synchrotron, comes online at Brookhaven National Laboratory in May.

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