Quark-Gluon Plasma

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Quark-Gluon Plasma 
By: Bell Muthukumaran

                     For a few millionths of a second, almost right after the big bang, the whole universe was filled with an extremely hot, dense, mixture of thousands of particles moving almost at light speed. In this mixture were mostly quarks, which are very important pieces of matter, and gluons, which are carriers of the strong force that usually glue quarks together into familiar protons, neutrons and other species. Though, in those first quick moments of extreme heat, quarks and gluons were only bound weakly, allowing them to move freely in what is a Quark-Gluon Plasma.
                                                                                                                   Now, to try and recreate the environment of the very early universe, powerful accelerators collide with each other between massive ions, due to these heavy-ion collisions, the hundreds of protons and neutrons in the nuclei smash into each other at very high energies. This results in a mini fireball and everything within that melts into a Quark-Gluon Plasma.
                                                    The fireball cools instantly and the partons (which are what quarks and gluons are called collectively) recombine into a combination of ordinary matter that spreads apart in all directions. The combination contains particles that are known as pions and kaons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark.
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                                                                                  I think that the next steps in this field should be to really study and understand the combination and mixture because a lot can be learned from it because it contains a lot of information can be obtained about kaons, pions and partons through the understanding of the specific combination that occurs right after the fireball cools down.




https://phys.org/news/2017-08-liquid-quark-gluon-plasma-vortical-fluid.html
https://home.cern/science/physics/heavy-ions-and-quark-gluon-plasma

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