{"id":179492,"date":"2023-12-30T00:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T06:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-dense-quark-liquid-is-distinct-from-a-dense-nucleon-liquid"},"modified":"2023-12-30T00:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T06:25:34","slug":"a-dense-quark-liquid-is-distinct-from-a-dense-nucleon-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-dense-quark-liquid-is-distinct-from-a-dense-nucleon-liquid","title":{"rendered":"A dense quark liquid is distinct from a dense nucleon liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dense-quark-liquid-is-distinct-from-a-dense-nucleon-liquid3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atomic nuclei are made of nucleons (like protons and neutrons), which themselves are made of quarks. When crushed at high densities, nuclei dissolve into a liquid of nucleons and, at even higher densities, the nucleons themselves dissolve into a quark liquid.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevB.107.024502\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review B<\/i>, researchers addressed the question of whether the liquids of nucleons and quarks are fundamentally different.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+calculations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical calculations<\/a> suggest that these liquids are different. Both types of liquids produce vortices when they rotate, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quark\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quark<\/a> liquids, the vortices carry a \u201ccolor-magnetic field,\u201d similar to an ordinary magnetic field. There is no such effect in nucleon liquids. Thus, these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/vortices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">vortices<\/a> sharply distinguish quark liquids from nuclear liquids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomic nuclei are made of nucleons (like protons and neutrons), which themselves are made of quarks. When crushed at high densities, nuclei dissolve into a liquid of nucleons and, at even higher densities, the nucleons themselves dissolve into a quark liquid. In a new study, published in the journal Physical Review B, researchers addressed the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179492","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}