New record set at CERN
1 Dec 2015 by Evoluted New Media
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved collisions between lead nuclei at the highest levels since it was opened.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has achieved collisions between lead nuclei at the highest levels since it was opened.
These experiments being carried out at CERN are aiming to understand the state of matter in the Universe just after the Big Bang happened.
Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, said: “the energy concentration achieved has never been realised before under terrestrial conditions.
“While it is still too early for a full analysis to have been carried out, the first collisions already tell us that more than 30,000 particles can be created in every central collision between two lead ions”, he added.
It is believed this collision will help researchers develop new and detailed models of the quark-gluon-plasma that existed a few billionths of a second after the Big Bang.
