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Physicists Map Quark-Gluon Plasma Acceleration, Propose New QCD Axis

8/5/2026

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Physicists Yu-Gang Ma and Xu-Guang Huang of Fudan University mapped acceleration in quark-gluon plasma.
They combined the AMPT and UrQMD models with Gaussian smearing to generate continuous fluid fields.
Simulations from 3.5 GeV to 2.76 TeV collisions yielded peak proper accelerations of several hundred MeV, with the strongest transverse acceleration outward at the fireball’s edge.
They propose acceleration as a thermodynamic control parameter, creating an acceleration axis on the QCD phase diagram.

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Physicists Yu-Gang Ma and Xu-Guang Huang of Fudan University mapped acceleration in quark-gluon plasma.
They combined the AMPT and UrQMD models with Gaussian smearing to generate continuous fluid fields.
Simulations from 3.5 GeV to 2.76 TeV collisions yielded peak proper accelerations of several hundred MeV, with the strongest transverse acceleration outward at the fireball’s edge.
They propose acceleration as a thermodynamic control parameter, creating an acceleration axis on the QCD phase diagram.