CERN Finds Primordial Matter in Oxygen-Neon Collisions
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- CERN experiments at the LHC detected signs of the universe's primordial matter through collisions involving oxygen and neon nuclei.
- LHC heavy-ion collision data mapped quark-gluon plasma's extreme acceleration, with the new measurements linking directly to primordial-matter physics.
Why it matters: The LHC's oxygen-neon collisions produced quark-gluon plasma — identified as the universe's primordial matter — while mapping the plasma's extreme acceleration, giving physicists new data on how matter behaved under the extreme conditions of the early universe.
