CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe's Primordial Matter

All four major LHC experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb) have reported new evidence that collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei may produce quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the primordial state of matter thought to have existed just after the Big Bang. This finding challenges the previous assumption that QGP could only form from very heavy ion collisions.