This is the reason why the scientists consider the new quark-gluon matter as fluid and might be very similar with the ones found during the birth of the Universe. In 2013, LHC physicists also announced the discovery of these quark-gluon plasma droplets after slamming protons into lead ions. Experts identified as the leading to lcd as the “littlest cash rich”. “That is in all probability the primary proof that the smallest droplet of quark gluon plasma is produced in proton-lead collisions”.

“Before the CMS experimental results, it had been thought the medium created in a proton on lead collisions would be too small to create a quark-gluon plasma“, said Quan Wang, one of the researchers, in a news release.

The idea that collisions of small particles with larger nuclei might create minute droplets of primordial quark-gluon plasma has guided a series of experiments to test this idea and alternative explanations, and stimulated a rich debate about the implications of these findings.”

“It’s believed to correspond to the state of the universe shortly after the Big Bang”, Wang said. Wang carried out a key evaluation for a paper concerning the experiment lately revealed in APS Physics.

The researcher depicted the new quark-gluon plasma as a super-hot (4 trillion degrees Celsius or 7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit), very dense state of matter comprised of an assortment of quarks and gluons.

Now, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – the second most powerful particle collider on the planet – have shown that this primordial soup flows like a almost friction-free “perfect” liquid. This finding was inconsistent with the uniform expansion of a gaseous state of matter, so high-energy physicists realized that they were looking at a new state of matter, composed of quarks (the subatomic building blocks of protons and neutrons) and gluons (a particle, or “boson”, that carries the strong nuclear force) that acts as a flawless liquid.

These types of experiments could help researchers better understand the cosmic conditions that were present in the instant following the Big Bang.

There is still very little known about quark-gluon plasma, which is said to be the state of universe about a microsecond after the Big Bang.

Wang continues his analysis at CERN’s Giant Hadron Collider, performing evaluation and dealing on the operations of a Zero Diploma Calorimeter maintained by KU.