Mapping Acceleration Across Collision EnergiesA research team led by Fudan University physicists Yu-Gang Ma and Xu-Guang Huang set out to map how acceleration forms and changes inside quark-gluon plasma. Using this approach, they tracked acceleration across collision energies ranging from 3.5 GeV to 2.76 TeV. Extreme Acceleration at the Fireball's EdgeThe simulations showed that peak proper acceleration can reach several hundred MeV at both low and high collision energies. "Just as temperature and density define the phase diagram of matter, acceleration may open a new axis of that diagram," stated Professor Huang. "By mapping this hidden dimension of the quark-gluon plasma, we hope to turn non-inertial quantum effects into signatures that experiments can actually measure."