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You had me at world's most powerful particle accelerator and Big Bang.
In the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was in an extremely hot and dense state of matter known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which can be reproduced with high-energy collisions between heavy ions such as lead nuclei.
On whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions:
"This is the first time we have observed, for a large interval in momentum and for multiple species, this flow pattern in a subset of proton collisions in which an unusually large number of particles are produced. Our results support the hypothesis that an expanding system of quarks is present even when the size of the collision system is small.
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Large Hadron Collider gives scientists their best look yet at conditions right after the Big Bang
"This is the first time we have observed, for a large interval in momentum and for multiple species, this flow pattern in a subset of proton collisions in which an unusually large number of particles are produced."