CERN physicists discover particles that existed in the first second of the Universe

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered the mysterious X-ray particles which were thought to make up the universe at the beginning of its existence.

The particles were found in quark-gluon plasma, a special medium created by the collision of lead ions.

Scientists believe the X particles were formed shortly after the Big Bang and have been around for a very short time.

During an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, 100 X particles were discovered. Studying their internal structure, as told by a scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ian-Jee Lee, will take several years.

Scientists hope to find out what the universe was like just after the Big Bang. After all, there is speculation that it consisted of plasma with a temperature of trillions of degrees Celsius. This mass was called quark-gluon plasma. It was recreated in the Large Hadron Collider to produce X particles.

It is worth noting that the Universe was filled with superhot mass for a very short period of time – literally for millionths of a second. This plasma then cooled and gradually became the protons and neutrons that make up all matter in its present state.

Scientists have long wanted to isolate X particles. And there were already theoretical calculations that the particles could be isolated in the Large Hadron Collider. A special algorithm was developed to recognize patterns characteristic of decay of X particles only.

Thanks to this algorithm 100 X particles were detected. The material obtained will be studied for several years. The result of the research should be a description of the state of the Universe at the very beginning of its emergence. That is, we can say that scientists, if not closely approached to unravel the mystery of world creation, at least, made a very big step in this direction.

Perhaps revolutionary discoveries await us in the study of X particles, which will help unravel how life originated in the world. And at the same time, humanity may get an answer to the decade-old question of whether we are alone in the Universe. For by recreating the beginnings of matter, it will be possible to simulate different scenarios in the different parts of the Universe accessible to humanity.