Quark gluon plasma?

Question

why is quark gluon plasma a plasma. and is it realy hot i just want to know

Answer 1

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe began about twelve to fifteen billion years ago in a violent explosion. For an incomprehensibly small fraction of a second, the universe was an infinitely dense and infinitely hot fireball. A peculiar form of energy that we don't know yet, suddenly pushed out the fabric of spacetime in a process called "inflation", which lasted for only one millionth of a second. Thereafter, the universe continued to expand but not nearly as quickly. The process of phase transition formed out the most basic forces in nature: first gravity, then the strong nuclear force, followed by the weak nuclear and electromagnetic forces. After the first second, the universe was made up of fundamental energy and particles like quarks, electrons, photons, neutrinos and other less familiar particles.

The temperature is estimated to be 1000 GeV  = 3 x 10 ^15 degrees Kelvin

1 eV = 3000 degrees Kelvin

So the answer is AFFIRMATIVE

Answer 2

very hot, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark-gluon...

Answer 3

The quarks carry charge.  So a big soup of them is a plasma in the same way that ionized gas is a plasma.  Except the phenomena we want to study would be the strong interaction, not EM.  The quarks and the gluons both carry color (the strong force's charge), so it is very plasma-like in there.  I think the scientists that do those heavy ion collision experiments borrow a lot of techniques from the plasma physicists.  And yes, it would have to be quite hot to get all those quarks and gluons to dissociate from one another (they normally live bound up in color-neutral nuclei and hadrons) and go into a big soup.

Answer 4

If you break it down then you will get the components for plasma.  Yes it has a high temperature that would kill you if you came close to it.

Answer 5

The normal matter is not charged. This means that positive and negative particles are tied together and mutually compensate their electricity.

The conventional plasma is the state of matter, where electrical charges are freed from the bindings and live separately. To break the bindings, the matter should be as hot as at the Sun.

The similiar effect should exist in the world of hadrons. Hadrons are the compositions of particles, called quarks and gluons. They have a charge, called "color".  This is not conventional everyday color, this is just poetical name of science notion.

So, in normal state the hadrons are colorless, or "white", since the parts are binded together.

But if the matter is hot enough, the color can be freed, so as electrical charge freed in normal plasma. This state of matter is called QGP. The temperature of the Sun is insufficient to achieve this state. Only the Big Bang temperatures are sufficient. Also there are probabably sufficient temperatures in the neutron stars.