You know about solids, liquids, gases and plasma and you may have heard of Bose-Einstein condensate. Now there may be a 6th type of matter. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) believe they have discovered a new form of matter, called color-glass condensate.
Color-glass condensate was an unexpected discovery made during proton-lead collisions, intended to act as a reference to compare with other types of collisions. Scientists saw a fluid wave of gluons, elementary particles that "glue" together the quarks together inside neutrons and protons. New particles are produced by the collisions between the lead ions and protons. As expected, the majority of the new particles speed off in all directions. However, some pairs of particles appear to depart the collision in correlated directions. Why do gluons in the color-glass condensate direct particles to travel in the same direction? It may be related to the phenomenon called quantum entanglement, which is when a pair of particles retain a connection or become entangled even when they are separated.
Details of the discovery will be published in the journal Physical Review B.
Photo: Large Hadron Collider or LHC (Maximilien Brice, CERN)
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“Why do gluons in the color-glass condensate direct particles to travel in the same direction?”. You will get your answer by answering the following questions. Why does a flowing fluid direct suspended particles to travel in the same direction?
Cool. Wont they have to change our science books and stuff? And that’s awesome. But, my question is can it change forms? Such as a solid melted into a liquid then evaporated into a gas. (Like Water, etc). That would take some great research to clearly, and I’m really looking forward to hearing more about this. OMG. Wut. i like sounded so smart right there^. I cant right now tho. Omg. I love science. K. Bye.
congrats to scientist
GREAT! A wonderfull discovery leads to understand many scientific theories.
WOW! That’s awesome.
wonderfull.what i was expecting is to see a new reasearch about new scientific studies
It is heartening to see that sky is the limit for research in the field of science.j
nice information thankyou Dr.
great job.kindly brief us in detail.
thanxxx for the info.
actually i was searching for BEC(bose-einstein condensate) and it led me to this article
Goodinformation Doc. keep it up. Happy new year
its very small,im expecting for a brief detail in this topic.