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Article: Quark-gluon plasma.
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- Science News
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- May 24, 1986
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Quark-Gluon Plasma
Quarks and gluons are reuniting nuclear physics and particle physics. It's nowhere near as difficult as reuniting the ancient supercontinent Gondwanaland: Nuclear physics and particle physics were never oceans apart, but over the last few decades distinct specialties have developed. Now, groups of nuclear physicists are going to one of the world's foremost particle-physics laboratories, CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, to use its most powerful accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), to energize not protons but atomic nuclei. Their goal is to make a quark-gluon plasma, an unusual state of matter that interests both groups fundamentally.
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