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CERN's 'Mini Big Bang' Helps Scientists Study the Universe's Earliest Moments

Using the ALICE detector, CERN scientists created a particle-scale version of the primordial soup of the early universe.Credit: Julien Ordan/CERN

A new paper in the journal Physical Review Letters details a fascinating study conducted at CERN that succeeded in creating a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) with lighter elements than ever.

This matters because, directly after the Big Bang, nearly all matter and energy existed as QGP. Physicists and cosmologists are very interested in its properties, and this study offers a new pathway for how it could have formed and evolved in the early universe.

Physicists have created this primordial plasma before in large particle colliders, but previous successes used heavy atoms like lead. This study used the oxygen-16 and neon-20 isotopes, which are all less than a tenth the weight of the lead isotopes used before.

You Zhou, a researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute in the Netherlands and a coauthor...

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How Sonos rebooted itself

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