From Quark Soup to Atoms and Stars
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 11:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists using the atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a phase transition different than the smooth transition of the early universe from the hot "soup" of subatomic particles to the atoms, made up of neutrons, protons and electrons that are the building blocks of matter.