#quark-gluon-plasma

#quark-gluon-plasma

For the past quarter-century, scientists using a particle collider on Long Island have been smashing the nuclei of gold atoms together at nearly the speed of light to create the hottest matter ever made on Earth. The soup of particles born from the collision mimics the universe as it was just after the big bang. Now researchers have at last accurately measured the temperature of this matter for the first time.

In our examination of the proton-to-pion ratio within a quark-gluon plasma, we find it notably increases with larger medium sizes, indicating enhanced quark recombination.