QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

Domain	Definition
Physics	A state of matter in which quarks and gluons, the fundamental constituents of matter, are no longer confined within the dimensions of the nucleon, but free to move around over a volume in which a high enough temperature and/or density prevails. This type of plasma has recently, 2/2000, been observed indirectly by the European laboratory for particle physics, CERN. These plasmas result in effective quark masses which are much larger than the actual masses. Calculations for the transition temperature to this new state give values between 140 and 180 MeV. This is more than 10,000 times the nominal fusion plasma temperature of 10keV.150 MeV is the characteristic energy of a particle in a plasma at roughly 1.5 trillion Kelvin. This corresponds to an energy density in the neighborhood of seven times that of nuclear matter. Temperatures and energy densities above these values existed in the early universe during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. (references)
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Commercial Usage: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

Domain	Title
Books	Quark-Gluon Plasma (Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics, Vol 6) (reference) Quark-Gluon Plasma 2 (reference) Quark-Gluon Plasma 3 (reference) The Nuclear Equation of State, Part B: Qcd and the Formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (NATO Asi Series B, Physics, Vol 216B) (reference) (more book examples)
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Anagrams: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

Proper Noun Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-g-k-l-l-m-n-o-p-q-r-s-u-u"
	-5 letters: Karamanoglu.
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Alternative Orthography: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA

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Specialty Definition: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA