New Kind of Matter Might Be Produced In Large Hadron Collider

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believed that collisions taking place in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might have formed new matters which are known as colour-glass condensate. Collisions taking place between the lead ions and protons at LHC near Geneva, Switzerland have caused a different kind of behaviour in certain particles which were created due to collisions.

When the beams of the particles collided with each other at very high speeds, the crash caused formation of new particles. Most of these particles flew away from point of collision at the speed of light approximately. However, the team of Compact Muon Solenoid at LHC discovered that in the sample of 2 million lead-protons collisions, some of the particles’ pairs went apart with the respective directions correlated.

When scientists of MIT along with Rice University analysed the collision of data they found that somehow the particles flew at similar directions despite the fact that it was not clear about how communication about direction took place between them.
The heavy-ion group of MIT observed similar kind of distinctive pattern in the proton-proton collisions some two years ago. Flight pattern of similar kind is observed when the ions of lead or certain other heavy metals like copper or gold bumped into each other.  The collision between the heavy ions produced quark gluon plasma wave, which is actually the hot soup of the particles which existed for initial few millionths of a second after Big Bang.

In collision, the wave swept some resulting particles in similar directions and this in turn accounted for correlation of the flight paths. It was also found that proton-proton collisions could produce liquid-like wave of the gluons which are known as colour-glass condensate.

A senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory involved in this research observed that the dense cloud of the gluons could produce certain unusual patterns in -lead collisions. In the research, they theorised the presence of colour-glass condensate just before the particle direction correlation observation in proton-proton collisions. This correlation is very minute effect but it indicates towards very fundamental things about the arrangement of quarks and gluons within a proton.

What is Large Hadron Collider?

Large Hadron Collider is the huge scientific instrument which is found near Geneva. It is basically the particle accelerator which is used by the physicists for observing and studying about the smallest particles which form the basis of all the things in the world. The instrument apparently helps the physicists understand everything ranging from minute world within the atoms to the gigantic universe.