The QGP is an extreme state of matter comprising deconfined quarks and gluons (partons) that exists only at temperatures above approximately 160 MeV, a condition met for last time a few
microseconds after the Big Bang, or at baryon densities five times higher than normal nuclear densities, speculated to exist inside the core of neutron stars.
At RHIC, scientists from around the world study what the universe may have looked like in the first
microseconds after its birth, helping us to understand more about why the physical world works the way it does — from the smallest particles to the largest stars.
These collisions produce conditions very similar to those that filled the universe
microseconds after the Big Bang - with temperatures 250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun in a speck the size of a single atomic nucleus.
In 1979, Kemp found that a few
microseconds after sound enters a healthy ear, the same sound — amplified up to 10 times — can be detected emanating from the ear.
«Exotic matter: A closer look at the perfect fluid sheds light on what happened
microseconds after the Big Bang.»
The findings reveal new aspects of the ultra-hot, «perfect fluid» that give clues to the state of the young universe just
microseconds after the big bang.
The idea behind ALICE is to recreate the exotic, primordial «soup of particles» known as quark - gluon plasma that appeared
microseconds after the universe's birth.
Ps lives less than
a microsecond after it is formed, but that is a long enough for it to demonstrate the distinctive properties of an atom.
The conditions in the quark - gluon plasma are a model for a moment just
a microsecond after the Big Bang, when forces and particles were emerging in a fast - paced sequence.
«While we believe the state of the universe about
a microsecond after the Big Bang consisted of a quark - gluon plasma, there is still much that we don't fully understand about the properties of quark - gluon plasma,» he said.
Not exact matches
To sum up in lay terminology,
after the first
microseconds of the big bang, there was an amorphous energy field.
«We're very confident that
after several
microseconds there is entanglement,» says Spedalieri.
Considering the short lifetime of Rydberg atoms — they decay
after a couple of ten
microseconds — the generation of distinct crystal phases made of a few atoms is an amazing experimental success made possible only by the sophisticated methods of high precision steering of atoms developed in the Bloch group.
The new detector system was triggered by a neutron or gamma - ray strike, and then matched that to any sonoluminescent flash that happened within 10
microseconds before or
after the strike.
So there is, you know, we have to measure this energy and then in less than a
microsecond, it has to completely clear out, so that we've got the next event and then the one
after that and the one
after that.
Michael and Andrea were delighted... and then I asked them if they minded if I would see if I could make them more money...
after a few
microseconds, they said yes.