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Article: Has matter's mother paid a call? (Hot Mama).(creation of quark-gluon plasma )
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- June 21, 2003
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Physicists have found new signs that fiery particle collisions within a giant accelerator two years ago created a state of matter identical to what might have been the stuff of the newborn universe.
Stunning results announced this week are prompting a growing chorus of physicists to say that it's time to declare success in a decades-long quest to make quark-gluon plasma--an extremely hot, dense soup of matter that contains loose fundamental particles known as quarks and gluons (SN: 8/26/00, p. 136).
"This really is a decisive moment," says theorist Miklos Gyulassy of Columbia University. "I feel, at this stage, we've actually seen it"
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