{"id":217142,"date":"2025-07-03T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/uncharted-waters-large-hadron-collider-begins-colliding-oxygen-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-07-03T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T03:06:15","slug":"uncharted-waters-large-hadron-collider-begins-colliding-oxygen-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/uncharted-waters-large-hadron-collider-begins-colliding-oxygen-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUncharted Waters\u201d: Large Hadron Collider Begins Colliding Oxygen For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/euaPmKtjfR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For example, when studying heavier ion collisions and xenon-xenon collisions, scientists at ATLAS saw \u201cjet quenching\u201d, as high-energy particles lose energy as they negotiate the quark-gluon plasma. Jet quenching was not seen in proton-lead collisions, which formed a smaller quark-gluon plasma system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheory predicts we should see the onset of jet quenching in oxygen\u2013oxygen collisions,\u201d Longo added. \u201cIf we observe even modest suppression, it could pin down the critical system size at which jet quenching begins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest in these studies is the \u201ccollective flow\u201d seen in the collective motion of particles that emerge from the quark-gluon plasma. Studying oxygen collisions could help tell us more about this collective behavior, whilst also telling us about the geometrical structure of oxygen nuclei. Meanwhile, colliding neon could tell us about its structure too, thought to be roughly in the shape of a bowling pin. The shape itself could have an impact on the formation of quark-gluon plasma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example, when studying heavier ion collisions and xenon-xenon collisions, scientists at ATLAS saw \u201cjet quenching\u201d, as high-energy particles lose energy as they negotiate the quark-gluon plasma. Jet quenching was not seen in proton-lead collisions, which formed a smaller quark-gluon plasma system. \u201cTheory predicts we should see the onset of jet quenching in oxygen\u2013oxygen collisions,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}