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    Quarkgluon plasma (QGP or quark soup) is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance)...
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    A gluon (/ˈɡluːɒn/ GLOO-on) is a type of massless elementary particle that mediates the strong interaction between quarks, acting as the exchange particle...
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  • diagnostic tool of quarkgluon plasma (QGP) formation and properties. Unlike up and down quarks, from which everyday matter is made, heavier quark flavors such...
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    mesons, or in quarkgluon plasmas. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of hadrons. Quarks have various...
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  • QCD matter (redirect from Quark matter)
    whose degrees of freedom include quarks and gluons, of which the prominent example is quark-gluon plasma. Several series of conferences in 2019, 2020...
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  • stars could contain deconfined quark-gluon plasma. The idea is that in the core the internal pressure needed for quark degeneracy – the point at which...
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    b{\bar {b}}} ) pairs, are crucial probes for studying the deconfined quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The ψ {\displaystyle...
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  • system that has been studied using the AdS/CFT correspondence is the quarkgluon plasma, an exotic state of matter produced in particle accelerators. This...
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    chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such...
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  • from quarkgluon plasma? Is quark flavor conserved in quarkgluon plasma? Are strangeness and charm in chemical equilibrium in quarkgluon plasma? Does...
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    antimatter? See also CP violation. What are the nature and properties of quarkgluon plasma, thought to have existed in the early universe and in certain compact...
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  • the formation of hadrons out of quarks and gluons. There are two main branches of hadronization: quark-gluon plasma (QGP) transformation and colour string...
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    sense. Fritzsch, H. (1983). Quarks: The Stuff of Matter. Basic Books. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-0-465-06781-7. "Quarkgluon plasma is the most primordial state...
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    non-perturbative phenomena such as confinement and quarkgluon plasma formation. In lattice QCD, fields representing quarks are defined at lattice sites (which leads...
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    other states are possible, including plasma, Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, and quarkgluon plasma. Usually atoms can be imagined as a...
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  • QCD vacuum and chiral condensates Vacuum in quantum field theory Quarkgluon plasma QCD matter Savvidy, G.K. (7 Nov 1977). "Infrared instability of the...
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    extreme cold), neutron-degenerate matter (in extreme density), and quarkgluon plasma (at extremely high energy). The term phase is sometimes used as a...
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    particle physics, the gluon field strength tensor is a second order tensor field characterizing the gluon interaction between quarks. The strong interaction...
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    particles can acquire mass and interact with the Higgs Field. The quarkgluon plasma persists (Quark epoch). The universe cools to 1015 kelvin.[citation needed]...
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  • binding energy (QCD binding energy), gluon binding energy or chromodynamic binding energy is the energy binding quarks together into hadrons. It is the energy...
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  • quarkgluon plasma is governed by quantum chromodynamics, but this theory is mathematically intractable in problems involving the quarkgluon plasma....
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    energies, these types of collisions are theorized to produce the quarkgluon plasma. In peripheral nuclear collisions at high energies one expects to...
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    melt. This is one of the predicted signals of the formation of the quarkgluon plasma. Heavy-ion experiments at CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron and at BNL's...
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  • Still higher energies are necessary to achieve a quarkgluon plasma. The primary changes in a plasma's behavior as it approaches the relativistic regime...
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  • of matter Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral Quarkgluon plasma, a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics Blood plasma, the yellow-colored...
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    electromagnetism. During the quark epoch, the universe was filled with a dense, hot quarkgluon plasma, containing quarks, leptons and their antiparticles...
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  • other states are possible, including plasma, Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, and quarkgluon plasma. Maximum-distortion energy theory ...
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    existed immediately after the Big Bang by measuring the properties of quark-gluon plasma. ALICE is designed to study high-energy collisions between lead nuclei...
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  • perfect fluids have no shear stresses, viscosity, or heat conduction. A quarkgluon plasma and graphene are examples of nearly perfect fluids that could be studied...
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    After cosmic inflation ended, the universe was filled with a hot quarkgluon plasma, the remains of reheating. From this point onwards the physics of...
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