‘Jet quenching’ effects diagram
Rights: ALICE/CERN Published 28 January 2011 Size: 31 KB Referencing Hub media

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.

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