{"id":115951,"date":"2020-11-16T22:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cern-physicists-find-first-evidence-for-production-of-top-quarks-in-nucleus-nucleus-collisions"},"modified":"2020-11-16T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T06:22:15","slug":"cern-physicists-find-first-evidence-for-production-of-top-quarks-in-nucleus-nucleus-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cern-physicists-find-first-evidence-for-production-of-top-quarks-in-nucleus-nucleus-collisions","title":{"rendered":"CERN Physicists Find First Evidence for Production of Top Quarks in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-physicists-find-first-evidence-for-production-of-top-quarks-in-nucleus-nucleus-collisions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New results from the CMS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider demonstrate for the first time that top quarks are produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The results open the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>First observed in proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron collider 25 years ago, this particle is also a unique and potentially very powerful tool to understand the inner content of nuclear matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from the CMS Collaboration at CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider demonstrate for the first time that top quarks are produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The results open the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang. First observed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}