Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva managed to collide lead ions to 1.045 trillion electron volt particle accelerator, reaching an energy twice as high as in the previous experiments, published ‘Daily Mail’.
Specialists worked hard in the reconfiguration and modification of the LHC to achieve this breakthrough. As a result, on November 17 physicists made colliding beams of heavy ions and a few days later declared stable.
The temperature reached during the test was several trillion degrees, which is high enough to replicate the initial state of the universe.
“It’s a tradition colliding ions each year for a month as part of our research program with the Large Hadron Collider,” said CERN Director General, Rolf Heur.
“But this year is special because we have broken a new record of energy and, therefore, we can explore the matter at the earliest stage of their existence,” said the scientist.
At the beginning of the universe after the Big Bang, matter existed as an extremely hot and dense matter, “like a soup” and is mainly composed of quarks and gluons. The researchers say that continuing the experiment hope to tackle a number of issues concerning the initial state of matter.
Source: RT
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