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UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

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3 months ago

Promotional graphic for a new publication titled 'Indications for freeze-out of charge fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma at the LHC' featured in Physical Review Letters. Includes the University of Houston logo and portraits of four contributors

UH Physics celebrates a new publication in Physical Review Letters by Jonathan Parra, Roman Poberezhniuk, Claudia Ratti and Volodymyr Vovchenko.

A significant contribution to high-energy physics and the study of QGP signatures.

🔗 Read the paper: https://bit.ly/3MwBc3y

#GoCoogs #UHPhysics #QGP #UH

Gltch

@gltch.io

5 months ago

Physicists probe quark‑gluon plasma temperatures, helping paint more detailed picture of Big Bang A research team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has successfully measured the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at various stages of its evolution, providing critical insights into a state of matter believed to have existed just microseconds after the Big Bang, a scientific theory describing the origin and evolution of the universe.

🤯 Scientists measured the heat of the universe's *first* moments! 🔥 Exploring quark-gluon plasma—a relic of the Big Bang! ✨ #QGP

Source: phys.org/news/2025-10-physicists-...

GetNews.me

@getnews-me.bsky.social

6 months ago

sPHENIX Detector Passes Candle Test, Ready to Probe Early Universe

Brookhaven's sPHENIX detector passed its standard‑candle test, confirming it can measure quark‑gluon plasma. The test recorded roughly ten times more particles and energy in head‑on gold collisions. getnews.me/sphenix-detector-passes-... #sphenix #qgp

Gltch

@gltch.io

6 months ago

Theoretical study reveals failure of key quark-gluon plasma probe in low-energy region According to theoretical predictions, within a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, nucleons had not yet formed, and matter existed as a hot, dense "soup" composed of freely moving quarks and gluons. This state of matter is known as quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Finding definitive evidence for the existence of QGP is crucial for understanding cosmic evolution.

🤯 A millionth of a second after the Big Bang: matter wasn't particles, but a soup of quarks & gluons! ✨ Unlocking this plasma reveals cosmic origins! #QGP

Source: phys.org/news/2025-08-theoretical...

LBNL Nuclear Science Division

@lbnlnuclearsci.bsky.social

7 months ago

We’re excited to shine our #InternHighlight on Jonathan Parra, who’s working on heavy‑ion collisions to recreate the Quark‑Gluon Plasma, a primordial soup from microseconds after the Big Bang.
#NSD #NuclearTheory #DataAnalysis #QGP

Andrew J. Steinmetz

@ajsteinmetz.com

8 months ago

Quarks to Cosmos: - The European Physical Journal Special Topics We describe in the context of the particle physics (PP) standard model (SM) ‘PP-SM’ the understanding of the primordial properties and composition of the Universe in the temperature range $$130\,\text...

New #Science paper day! 🎉⚛️🧪 We employ the #Physics Standard Model + FLRW #Cosmology to describe the Universe's compositional evolution from #QGP to electron-positron plasma.

Rafelski, J., Birrell, J., Grayson, C. et al. Quarks to Cosmos. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2025). doi.org/10.1140/epjs...

Andrew J. Steinmetz

@ajsteinmetz.com

9 months ago

#AdS/CFT correspondence can turn a strong coupled #QFT into a weak coupled #StringTheory. This predicted the viscosity of a coupled fluid given by η/s ≥ ħ/4πk ≈ 0.08 close to quark-gluon plasma #QGP (≈0.1-0.2) #Physics #Science 🧪 ⚛️ 🧮

DOI: doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0...

Gltch

@gltch.io

10 months ago

Particle emission ratios offer new window into evolution of matter in the early universe Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a key indicator that may reveal the emergence of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by analyzing particle "fingerprints" generated in heavy-ion collisions.

🤯 Scientists hunt for fingerprints of the universe's first matter—quark-gluon plasma—created in particle collisions! ✨ #QGP ⚛️

Source: phys.org/news/2025-04-particle-em...