{"id":211347,"date":"2025-04-14T02:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/maximal-entanglement-sheds-new-light-on-particle-creation"},"modified":"2025-04-14T02:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:06:11","slug":"maximal-entanglement-sheds-new-light-on-particle-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/maximal-entanglement-sheds-new-light-on-particle-creation","title":{"rendered":"Maximal entanglement sheds new light on particle creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maximal-entanglement-sheds-new-light-on-particle-creation3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. The study was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.111902\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> as an Editor\u2019s Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite extensive research, the connection between a jet\u2019s initial conditions and its final particle distribution has remained elusive,\u201d said Charles Joseph Naim, a research associate at the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (CFNS) in SBU\u2019s Department of Physics and Astronomy. \u201cThis study, for the first time, establishes a direct connection between the \u2018entanglement entropy\u2019 at the earliest stage of jet formation and the particles that emerge as a jet evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The evidence comes from an analysis of jet particles emerging from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/proton-proton+collisions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">proton-proton collisions<\/a> captured by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile-circumference circular collider located at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. In these powerful collisions, the individual building blocks of the colliding protons, known as quarks and gluons, scatter off one another and sometimes get knocked free with enormous amounts of energy. But quarks can\u2019t stay free for long. They and the gluons that normally hold them together immediately begin to split and reconnect through a branching process called fragmentation. The result is the formation of many new composite particles made of pairs or triplicates of quarks\u2014collectively known as hadrons\u2014that spray out of the collision in a coordinated way, that is, as a jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University (SBU) have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. The study was recently published as an Editor\u2019s Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters. \u201cDespite extensive research, the connection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211347","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}