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Record collider: 10 trillion degrees!
The absolute temperature record of about 10 trillion degrees Celsius installed on the world's most powerful particle accelerator - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located near Geneva, Switzerland.
As ITAR-TASS, in one experiment, the scientists have not yet been able to obtain such a high temperature is unthinkable. The record was set on November 7 when the LHC started in place of previously used proton beams colliding beams flying at high speed and has great energy beams of lead ions.
As a result, we began to have a "mini-big bang" - dense fire areas had such a terrible temperature. At such temperatures, and energies of the nuclei of atoms literally melt and form a "soup" of their constituent quarks and gluons and quark-gluon plasma. The emergence of such an exotic state of matter is a key prediction of the most successful theory describing the behavior of elementary particles - quantum chromodynamics. According to her, for as a scientist will be able to recreate the conditions of all the earlier moments of the evolution of our universe, they will see how the so-called strong interaction, holding neutrons and protons in the atomic nucleus, come to naught. Pioneers of this phenomenon - "asymptotic freedom" - won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
Now, with the help of the set at the LHC detector ALICE, weighing 10 thousand. Tons, scientists can study the conditions that existed in the universe after only a millionth of a second after the beginning gave it the Big Bang. It is hard to even imagine what scientists expect the unexpected discoveries ahead. Thus, the relativistic heavy ion accelerator as a complete surprise for the scientists was the fact that the resulting quark-gluon plasma behaves like a gas, but as a perfect fluid.
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As ITAR-TASS, in one experiment, the scientists have not yet been able to obtain such a high temperature is unthinkable. The record was set on November 7 when the LHC started in place of previously used proton beams colliding beams flying at high speed and has great energy beams of lead ions.
As a result, we began to have a "mini-big bang" - dense fire areas had such a terrible temperature. At such temperatures, and energies of the nuclei of atoms literally melt and form a "soup" of their constituent quarks and gluons and quark-gluon plasma. The emergence of such an exotic state of matter is a key prediction of the most successful theory describing the behavior of elementary particles - quantum chromodynamics. According to her, for as a scientist will be able to recreate the conditions of all the earlier moments of the evolution of our universe, they will see how the so-called strong interaction, holding neutrons and protons in the atomic nucleus, come to naught. Pioneers of this phenomenon - "asymptotic freedom" - won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
Now, with the help of the set at the LHC detector ALICE, weighing 10 thousand. Tons, scientists can study the conditions that existed in the universe after only a millionth of a second after the beginning gave it the Big Bang. It is hard to even imagine what scientists expect the unexpected discoveries ahead. Thus, the relativistic heavy ion accelerator as a complete surprise for the scientists was the fact that the resulting quark-gluon plasma behaves like a gas, but as a perfect fluid.
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