| Bibliographic Entry | Result (w/surrounding text) |
Standardized Result |
|---|---|---|
| Chang, Kenneth. Scientists Report Hottest, Densest Matter Ever Observed. New York Times, 19 June 2003. | "In 2001, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider here, known as RHIC, performed a series of experiments, slamming the nuclei of gold atoms, each with 79 protons and 118 neutrons, into one another at speeds approaching that of light. In such collisions, which create temperatures reaching trillions of degrees, a pair of quarks can be knocked out of a proton or a neutron." | 1012 K |
| ALICE experiment sets record for the hottest spot in the Universe, Panos Charitos, ALICE Matters, European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN), 13 October 2012. | "In the recent Quark Matter 2012 conference, the ALICE collaboration announced the production of the highest human-made temperature in the universe. The highest temperature of approximately 5.5 trillion Kelvin was produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN by smashing heavy ions after accelerating them to 99% of the speed of light…. That's about 38% hotter than the old record, set by the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, by smashing gold ions together." | 5.5 × 1012 K |
Editor's Supplement -- 2003, 2013