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Dr. Justin Frantz, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University, on “What is the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma and how does it form?” on Friday, Oct. 11, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. His talk is part of the Physics and Astronomy Fall 2013 Colloquium series. “The new […]

As matter “cooks” to 4 trillion degrees Celsius—250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun—protons and neutrons melt into a liquid plasma of quarks and gluons. This liquid may have been present at the start of the universe for a few microseconds. But Dr. Justin Frantz has an even […]