From Little Bangs to the Big Bang

Abstract

The `Little Bangs' made in particle collider experiments reproduce the conditions in the Big Bang when the age of the Universe was a fraction of a second. It is thought that matter was generated, the structures in the Universe were formed and cold dark matter froze out during this very early epoch when the equation of state of the Universe was dominated by the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Future Little Bangs may reveal the mechanism of matter generation and the nature of cold dark matter. Knowledge of the QGP will be an essential ingredient in quantitative understanding of the very early Universe.

Invited Plenary Talk at the International Conference on the Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, Kolkata, Feb. 2005: 13 pages, 11 figures, uses IoP style files (included)

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