[x]

Browse More Like This

Shop Similar Prints
This Print Not Available more ▶

More from *HectorPineda

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

#the-surreal-arts
Wake Up and Dream!

#Quirk-and-Whimsy
The best from the best artists

#Twisted-Misfits
Celebrating the Unique Arts

#Mexico-Magico
Mexican Art Taken Seriously

Details

Submitted: October 6, 2012
Image Size: 297 KB
Resolution: 567×567
Submitted with: Sta.sh

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 5
Favourites: 29 [who?]
Views: 762 (0 today)

Camera Data

Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS 40D
Shutter Speed:1/128 second
Aperture:F/13.0
Focal Length:58 mm
ISO Speed:200
Date Taken:Mar 1, 2009, 5:52:06 AM
Software:Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
Sensor Size:3mm

Shop For This Camera

[x]

Creacion de la materiaby *HectorPineda

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Surreal

Creación de la materia

Creation of matter. 2012. [link]

The first experiments to study the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC reveal that even at the hottest temperatures ever produced at a particle accelerator,
this extreme state of matter remains the best example of an ideal liquid.

In November, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN began its first heavy-ion run, producing lead-lead collisions with the highest center of mass energy ever achieved. Now, a pair of papers appearing in Physical Review Letters, from the ALICE [1] and ATLAS [2] experiments at the LHC, presents a first glimpse of what new information these high-energy collisions will offer about the quark-gluon plasma—the state of matter believed to have filled the universe at the time of the Big Bang. The ALICE results strongly indicate that the quark-gluon plasma remains a nearly ideal liquid, as seen earlier at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), even at significantly higher energies. Complementing this work, the ATLAS team has shown that even very high energy jets of particles emitted from the collision lose a large fraction of their energy into the quark-gluon plasma (and are sometimes completely dissipated), a sign that the quarks and gluons are strongly interacting with the hotter plasma.

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is the extreme state of matter that occurs above a critical temperature Tc∼170MeV (2 trillion degrees Kelvin). Unlike the world we live in, where quarks and gluons are not free, but bound into nucleons, the QGP can be viewed as a plasma consisting of quarks and gluons that interact via Coulombic forces. (The “color” charge of quarks and gluons determines the strength of the strong force in the same way that electric charge determines the strength of the electromagnetic force.) Laboratory collider experiments seek to understand the strength of these forces and their effect on the properties of the QGP.