Formation of Quark Gluon Plasma and Enhancement of Strangeness in Proton-Proton Collisions
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Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is the state of matter created in labs to study the first few moments after the big bang. It is characterized by its high energy density and the deconfinement of the quarks within it. Among the markers of QGP is the production of strange quarks, produced by processes such as flavour creation and gluon splitting. Such production of strange quarks is observed in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), indicating that QGP is indeed produced. However other markers such as jet quenching and charmonia suppression are still in question. Though some QGP formation markers are absent, the production of strangeness in pp collisions makes a strong case that QGP was indeed produced.
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