Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Physics: Quarks and Gluons explained Professor Claudia Ratti from the Physics Department at the University of Houston explains the essential information about quarks and gluons, including the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma, plus Quantum Chromodynamics. Just a few microseconds after the Big Bang, a phase transition occurred in our Universe, during which a system of quarks and gluons (the so-called Quark-Gluon Plasma or QGP), by expanding and cooling down, transitioned into a phase of quark and gluon bound states (the so-called hadrons) that populate the Universe today. This phase transition happened at temperatures that are about a hundred thousand times hotter than the one inside the core of the sun and is driven by the strong force that binds quarks and gluons together.
Source: Open Access Government
Author: Claudia Ratti
Institution: University of Houston
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: NUCLEAR SCIENCE IN TEXAS TO ENHANCE AND ADVANCE MINORITIES (NUSTEAM), Frameworks: MUSES, Modular Unified Solver of the Equation of State, G643508668, G6963269962, Nuclear Physics from Multi-Messenger Mergers (NP3M), G8147714465, Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter at Finite Density from First Principles, G8590638883
OpenAlex ID: W4409340694