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CERN Produces Quark-Gluon Plasma Using Lightweight Oxygen and Neon Nuclei

CERN researchers and international collaborators generated quark-gluon plasma—the hot, dense matter thought to have existed microseconds after the Big Bang—by colliding oxygen-16 and neon-20 nuclei, elements far lighter than the lead atoms typically used for such experiments. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, show this exotic state of matter can form in much smaller collisions than previously assumed.

wired.com · 2026-08-30

Beijing collider team finds strongest evidence yet for glueball particle X(2370)

Physicists at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II presented new analysis showing the particle X(2370) is likely a glueball, an exotic particle theorized nearly 50 years ago to be made entirely of gluons rather than quarks. The findings, detailed in a preprint shown at a physics conference in Brazil, build on 2024 work that measured the particle's mass and spin, now adding data on its decay modes and flavor-singlet structure.

science.slashdot.org · 2026-08-24