Category Archives: Quark Gluon PLasma

ALICE Enters New Territory

Posted on July 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

A computer screen in the ALICE control room shows an event display on the night of the first heavy-ion collisions in the LHC in November 2010. A basic process in QCD is the energy loss of a fast parton in … Continue reading →

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QGP Advances

Posted on July 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Even the famous helium-3, which can flow out of a container via capillary forces, does not count as a perfect fluid.What black holes teach about strongly coupled particles by Clifford V. Johnson and Peter Steinberg….May of Last Year. If helium-3 … Continue reading →

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A Conformal Field Theory Approach?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Using the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to relate fermionic quantum critical fields to a gravitational problem, we computed the spectral functions of fermions in the field theory. By increasing the fermion density away from the relativistic quantum critical point, … Continue reading →

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Quark Soup: Applied Superstring Theory

Posted on February 10, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Author(s)Alex Buche–University of Western Ontario / Perimeter Institute Robert Myers-Perimeter Institute Aninda Sinha-Perimeter Institute Quark Soup: Applied Superstring Theory It is believed that in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, our universe was dominated by a strongly interacting … Continue reading →

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2010 ion run: completed!

Posted on December 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

First direct observation of jet quenching. At the recent seminar, the LHC’s dedicated heavy-ion experiment, ALICE, confirmed that QGP behaves like an ideal liquid, a phenomenon earlier observed at the US Brookhaven Laboratory’s RHIC facility. This question was indeed one … Continue reading →

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QGP Research Advances

Posted on November 18, 2010 by PlatoHagel

“We can say that the system definitely flows like a liquid,” says Harris. One of the first lead-ion collisions in the LHC as recorded by the ATLAS experiment on November 8, 2010. Image courtesy CERN. *** Scientists from the ALICE … Continue reading →

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Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP)

Posted on May 7, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Blackhole substances are perhaps the most-perfect fluids in existence because they have ultra-low viscosity. No matter what you call it, though, that substance and others similar to it could be the most-perfect fluids in existence because they have ultra-low viscosity, … Continue reading →

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Article From New York Times and More

Posted on February 16, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Brookhaven National Laboratory HOT A computer rendition of 4-trillion-degree Celsius quark-gluon plasma created in a demonstration of what scientists suspect shaped cosmic history. In Brookhaven Collider, Scientists Briefly Break a Law of Nature The Brookhaven scientists and their colleagues discussed … Continue reading →

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Sound Shaping our Views of the Universe?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by PlatoHagel

The Sound of Gravitational Waves We can’t actually hear gravitational waves, even with the most sophisticated equipment, because the sounds they make are the wrong frequency for our ears to hear. This is similar in principle to the frequency of … Continue reading →

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So what about the Missing Energy?

Posted on December 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

“Death, so called, is but older matter dressedIn some new form. And in a varied vest,From tenement to tenement though tossed,The soul is still the same, the figure only lost.” Poem on Pythagoras, Dryden’s Ovid. It is unfortunate to have … Continue reading →

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