Tag: quark-gluon plasma
A mixture of weakly bound quarks and gluons, which are free to move on their own in what’s called a quark-gluon plasma.
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ALICE reports new charmonia measurements in LHC Run 3
The ALICE collaboration presents its first results based on data collected with the upgraded detector in 2022, the first year of Run 3 of the LHC, at the 2023 Quark Matter conference
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Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics
In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments
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ALICE sees the ridge in simplest collisions yet
The observation brings physicists a step closer to finding the origin of collective phenomena in small collision systems
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ALICE explores the hidden charm of quark–gluon plasma
The ALICE collaboration shows that different bound states of a charm quark and its antimatter counterpart are differently modified by quark–gluon plasma, opening new avenues for studying this special state of matter and its effects
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Mass matters when quarks cross a quark–gluon plasma
A new analysis by the ALICE collaboration confirms the expected role of quark mass in the interactions of quarks with a quark–gluon plasma
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Quark Matter 2017: understanding the early universe
The LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter conference on how matter behaved in the universe’s first moments