{"id":620085,"date":"2026-08-04T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/620085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:57:14","slug":"scientists-recreate-big-bang-conditions-and-confirm-primordial-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/620085\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists recreate Big Bang conditions and confirm primordial matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists explained that quark-gluon plasma (QGP) forms under extreme pressure and temperatures over 100,000 times those at the center of the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Under such conditions, complex particles break down into their fundamental components \u2014 quarks and gluons.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 14 billion years after the emergence of the universe, physicists have managed to briefly recreate this state using high-energy nuclear collisions at the collider.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breaking old axioms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously, the scientific community held the view that quark-gluon plasma could only arise during collisions of very heavy ions, such as lead, which are over 200 times heavier than protons.<\/p>\n<p>However, new experimental data have refuted this claim:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb detectors found clear signs of QGP in collisions of oxygen-oxygen and neon-neon pairs;<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>Earlier, the ALICE experiment confirmed the presence of plasma signals even in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions;<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li>The studies prove that the mass of significantly lighter atomic nuclei is sufficient to create an extreme environment.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0432\u0438\u0431\u0443\u0445 \u0432\u0456\u0434\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0417\u0435\u043c\u043b\u0456: \u0444\u0456\u0437\u0438\u043a\u0438 \u043f\u0456\u0434\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0456\u0441\u043d\u0443\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0438\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0457 \u043c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0456\u0457\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/chrome-capture-2026-08-03_2.png\" data-lazy-type=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Collisions of oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider show signs of quark-gluon plasma \u2013 the primordial state of matter believed to have filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang (source: CERN)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key evidence for the existence of plasma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main confirmation of the formation of a hot environment was the loss of energy by fast quarks and gluons as they passed through the plasma \u2013 the jet quenching effect.<\/p>\n<p>The ATLAS collaboration recorded this phenomenon through an imbalance in pairs of particle jets, which increased in head-on collisions with a larger volume of plasma.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said that the CMS and LHCb detectors confirmed the suppression of energetic particle production, and in neon-neon systems this suppression was stronger due to the larger size of the resulting plasma volume.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the ALICE detector recorded another important feature. 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