Atom smasher creates new material

The collisions between the particles inside the atomic crusher machine called Large Particle Accelerator (LHC) seem to have created a new kind of material.

Scientists working with the LHC called the new material a stained glass. It is a fluid-like wave, composed of gluons - the fundamental particles involved in strong interactions that bind quarks together within protons and neutrons.

Previously, scientists were not expecting to get the material from collisions of particles inside the LHC. However, unexpected results may help explain some strange phenomena observed in the atomic smashing machine located beneath the French-Swiss border.

A proton collides with a lead nucleus, creating a seed rain
through the detector of the large particle accelerator team.

According to the Live Science Web site, when the team accelerated the protons (one of the atomic components) and lead (lead atoms were stripped of electrons and contained 82 protons / ions) Each subsequent explosion loosens the colliding particles and forms new particles. Most of these new particles fly in all directions at nearly the speed of light.

Nevertheless, recently, scientists discovered that some pairs of newborn particles from the collisions on the fly in the direction of correlation.

'Somehow, they fly in the same direction, even if they are not sure how they can communicate with each other. That surprised many, including us , "said Professor of Physics Gunther Roland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the team that led the particle collision analysis in the LHC. Highway.

Previous studies at MIT have found similar features in proton-proton collisions two years ago. The same type of flight observed when lead ions or other heavy metals such as gold and copper collide. Such heavy ionic collisions produced a plasma wave of quark gluon - the hot bean soup that survived only in the first few millionth of a second after the Big Bang.

Scientists have hypothesized that proton-proton collisions can produce a liquid-like gluon wave and are called stained glass. New research has provided the clue that this hypothesis is true.