Quark-gluon plasma

A Quark-gluon plasma is a phase of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) which exists at extremely high temperature and density. It is believed to have existed during the first 20 or 30 microseconds after the big bang brought the universe into existence. Experiments at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron

Related Topics:
Quantum chromodynamics - Temperature - Density - Big bang - Universe - CERN - Super Proton Synchrotron

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

first tried to create the QGP in the 1980s and 1990s, and may have been

Related Topics:
1980s - 1990s

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

partially successful. Currently, experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are continuing this effort http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/. CERN's new experiment, Alice http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/index.html, will start soon (around 2007-2008) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Related Topics:
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider - CERN - Large Hadron Collider

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~