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Physicists at the ATLAS detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have spotted top quarks — the heaviest of all known elementary particles — that were produced by the collision of atomic nuclei 1.

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In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...