When proton–proton collisions turn strange

When proton–proton collisions turn strange
Something "strange" is happening at the Large Hadron Collider. Growing evidence suggests that proton collisions in the accelerator are producing quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the hot, dense soup of unconfined quarks and gluons that briefly filled the universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang. The evidence comes in the form of enhanced production of strange quarks, a hallmark of QGP formation.

Article:
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.20170605a/full/

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