Data from the LHC confirm a fresh model of proton collisions. Quantum mechanics works even in the most chaotic conditions

Zdjęcie: Dane z LHC potwierdzają nowy model zderzeń protonów / Inne


When protons collide with tremendous energies in particle accelerators, the subatomic planet turns into real chaos. Quarks and gluons - the basic "building blocks" that make up protons - interact innumerably, virtual particles appear and disappear, and the full strategy resembles boiling water. Intuition suggests that specified a phase of the collision should be much more "disordered" than what we observe later, erstwhile ready-made hadrons fly out of the collision area.