A recent Physical Review Letters study presents a new model for quark star merger ejecta that could resolve whether these cosmic collisions generate ordinary matter or something different.
Long theorized but never confirmed, quark stars could be the densest objects in the universe — stranger even than neutron ...
A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at various stages of its evolution, providing critical insights into ...
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Frank Geurts is a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice and co-spokesperson of the RHIC STAR collaboration.