Oct 21, 2020
RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: cosmology, particle physics
Circa 2010
Until the LHC finally gets up to full speed, Brookhaven National Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) remains the world’s most powerful heavy ion smasher. And on Monday, they showed off some of that power by announcing that a recent collision resulted in the hottest matter ever recorded. Coming in at a scorching 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, the plasma not only recreated the environment of the Big Bang, but might have also resulted in the temporary formation of a bubble within which some normal laws of physics did not apply.