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MIT and CERN recreated early-universe conditions by colliding lead ions at near-light speed in the LHC, tracing how quarks slow and generate a wake in quark-gluon plasma, providing definitive evidence that this primordial soup behaves like a liquid rather than a gas, with implications for understanding the birth of matter.
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider recreated brief, Big-Bang–like conditions by colliding heavy nuclei, forming a droplet of quark-gluon plasma that behaves more like a liquid than a gas. By tagging quarks with Z bosons, researchers observed a tiny wake and a sub-percent dip in particle production, indicating energy transfer to the plasma and opening new avenues to study the primordial state of matter, as reported in Physics Letters B.
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (CMS collaboration) detected a subtle dip (less than 1%) in backward particle production as a high-energy quark moved through a tiny droplet of quark-gluon plasma, revealing a wake formed by energy transfer to the primordial fluid. By using Z bosons as clean markers, researchers could isolate this effect and gain a lab-side glimpse into the hot, liquid-like plasma that filled the early universe microseconds after the Big Bang.
Physicists at the LHC's CMS collaboration watched a high-energy quark traverse quark-gluon plasma by using Z bosons as a clean directional tag. They observed a subtle less-than-1% dip in backward-produced hadrons, consistent with a wake in the primordial soup and offering new insight into the liquid-like properties of the early-universe plasma.
Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up a 25-year run with its largest-ever dataset from heavy-ion collisions, advancing understanding of quark-gluon plasma and proton spin while laying groundwork for the future Electron-Ion Collider; the article also rounds up related HPC/AI/quantum news, including Capgemini’s Google Cloud sovereign AI partnership, ACCESS crop-trade modeling, ETH Zurich’s lattice-surgery quantum work, ISC 2026’s EESP workshop, and Quobly’s Canadian subsidiary expansion.
Physicists analyzing LHC data from CERN used Z bosons as markers to track quarks moving through quark-gluon plasma, confirming that this primordial soup behaves like a liquid and creates wake patterns as it’s disturbed, a finding that supports long-standing theories about the early universe and provides new ways to study the properties of this exotic fluid.
Using the Large Hadron Collider, researchers recreated quark‑gluon plasma and observed that the ultra‑hot primordial soup behaved as a nearly perfect liquid, producing wakes as fast‑moving quarks traversed it. By tagging events with a Z‑boson to isolate single-quark wakes, they found fluid‑like ripples that match hybrid model predictions, offering new insight into the universe’s first microseconds and the properties of the quark‑gluon plasma (Physics Letters B).
Physicists have measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter from moments after the Big Bang, reaching trillions of Kelvin, providing new insights into the early universe's conditions and advancing understanding of matter under extreme temperatures.
The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory has successfully tested a new technology that captures detailed data from high-energy collisions, helping scientists better understand the universe's earliest moments and the elusive quark-gluon plasma formed shortly after the Big Bang, marking a significant advancement in cosmic research.
A new particle detector called sPHENIX at Brookhaven National Laboratory has successfully passed a crucial test, demonstrating its readiness to study the 'ashes' of quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy collisions, which can provide insights into the conditions of the early universe immediately after the Big Bang.
The sPHENIX particle detector at Brookhaven's RHIC has successfully demonstrated its precision in measuring particle collisions, confirming its readiness to study the properties of quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter from the early universe, by analyzing the particles produced in high-speed gold ion collisions.
Researchers have successfully tested the sPHENIX detector, a major upgrade at Brookhaven's RHIC, which is designed to study the conditions of the early universe by measuring particle collisions that recreate the quark-gluon plasma, passing a key initial test and paving the way for new insights into the universe's first moments.
In 2012, CERN's Large Hadron Collider achieved the creation of the hottest artificially produced temperature ever, reaching 5 trillion Kelvin, which is about 100,000 times hotter than the Sun's core and similar to conditions microseconds after the Big Bang, by colliding lead ions at near-light speeds to study primordial matter.
New experiments at RHIC reveal how quark-gluon plasma 'splashes' sideways when hit by energetic jets, providing insights into its properties and behavior during high-energy collisions, similar to a splash in water, and helping scientists understand the early universe conditions.
A new study using lattice QCD techniques has calculated the equation of state of the quark-gluon plasma from 3 GeV to 165 GeV, revealing that the strong force played a significant role in the early universe's conditions shortly after the Big Bang, with implications for understanding the universe's evolution and phase transitions.