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The LHC is expected to become the main impetus and pinnacle of achievement in high-energy physics research; however, it is already clear that answers to many questions will not come via the LHC.

For example, it will be impossible to observe the process of the transition of very dense nuclear material to a new state - quark-gluon plasma - a mixed phase existing in the first moments after the Big Bang. There is a theory that that was when quarks existed in a free state. Then they grouped together and protons and neutrons appeared. In the LHC, this process is skipped because the energy of the particles" interaction is too high.

Alexei Sisakyan, director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) at the international scientific center in Dubna, says that this may be compared to boiling water. If we can see how water (heavy nuclei) changes into steam (quark-gluons) at 100 degrees, then at 1000 degrees, this process is invisible - it takes a fraction of a second for

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