Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab.
That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN)
in Switzerland.
Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from
the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities
approaching the speed of light.
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| A three-dimensional view of a p-Pb collision that produced collective flow behavior. The green lines are the trajectories of the sub-atomic particles produced by the collision reconstructed by the CMS tracking system. The red and blue bars represent the energy measured by the instrument's two sets of calorimeters. (Credit: CMS Collaboration) |
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