Moments after the Big Bang, the universe was unimaginably hot, dense, and filled with freely moving quarks and gluons. This ...

A group of scientists from Italy was able to accurately describe the behavior of quark-gluon plasma in the first moments ...

Very soon after the Big Bang, the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up ...

the universe enjoyed a brief phase where quarks and gluons roamed freely, not yet joined up into hadrons such as protons, neutrons and mesons. This state, called a quark-gluon plasma, existed ...

The plasma, however, was so hot that it also ... Cosmological inflation is a widely trusted theory of how our Universe got from its tiny, hot, dense, original state to the cosmos we see today.

In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in plasma physics research. In the past, large magnetic fusion experiments have made considerable progress, with theory often being subordinate and ...