Science Learning Hub logo
TopicsConceptsCitizen scienceTeacher PLDGlossary
Sign in
Image

‘Jet quenching’ effects

‘Jet quenching’ effects diagram

Studying ‘jet quenching’ can better explain how dense the quark-gluon plasma may be and how particles lose their energy while traversing the plasma of the early Universe.

Glossary

Rights: ALICE/CERN
Published: 28 January 2011Size: 31.1 KB
Referencing Hub media

Explore related content

Appears inRelated resources
CERN creates mini big bangs

Article

CERN creates mini big bangs

On November 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), operated by CERN under the French-Swiss border near Geneva, successfully created an ...

Read more
three men at a factory discussing a spray programme.

Article

Plasma spray gun research

Dr Steven Matthews’s plasma spray gun research is at present focused in two diverse areas. Both involve working in collaboration ...

Read more
Diagram of a proton–proton chain reaction.

Article

Plasmas and nuclear fusion

Fusion is the process occurring within the plasma core of our Sun in which the nuclei of lighter atoms link ...

Read more
Diagram of the Accelerator complex at CERN

Article

Particle physics research

The Large Collider (or LHC) is large, with a circumference of 27 km. A hadron is any particle made up ...

Read more

See our newsletters here.

NewsEventsAboutContact usPrivacyCopyrightHelp

The Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao is funded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Science in Society Initiative.

Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao © 2007-2025 The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato