After more than a decade of looking, the search narrows for a mysterious form of matter predicted from Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Scientists believe that they are on the verge of finding it.
Journey to find out Color Glass :
Scientists and physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is 17-mile (27 kilometers) long and is at underground which run through the border between France and Switzerland, are looking for the missing matter, called a color glass condensate, by studying what happens when particles don’t collide, but instead zoom past each other in near misses. This condensate could explain many unsolved mysteries of physics, according to the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Mysteries such as how particles are formed in high-energy collisions, or how matter is distributed within particles might be solved by studying this condensate.
The theory which describes the zoo of subatomic particles, in the Standard Model of physics, 98 percent of the visible matter in the universe is held together by fundamental particles called gluons. These particles as the name suggest, glues together quarks to form protons and neutrons. When protons are accelerated to near the speed of light, the concentration of gluons inside them skyrockets.
Experiments :
The lab conducted experiments by smashing together gold atoms stripped of their electrons and they found a strange signal in the particles streaming out of the collisions, hinting that the atoms’ protons were jam-packed with gluons and beginning to form the color glass condensate. Nonetheless, colliding protons together at relativistic speeds can only give a fleeting glimpse of the protons’ innards before the subatomic particles violently explode. This suggests that probing the insides of protons takes a more gentle approach.
An international collaboration of scientists and Tapia Takaki, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, are now using this method to track down the elusive color glass condensate. At the highest level, they found evidence that a color glass condensate was just beginning to form.
And for now, the existence of color glass condensate remains an elusive mystery.
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