Detail of the Medea detector at South National Laboratories, in Catania, Italy. The Medea detector is used to measure gamma rays and particles produced by collisions between heavy ions. Detection of gamma rays and other extremely high-energy particles enables researchers to obtain information about the collision's first moments, in which nuclear matter reaches conditions of extremely high density and temperature.
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