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In the beginning, about 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was a soup of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). And the quarks and gluons moved around unconstrained, free in the extremely hot and dense matter. But that was not to be for long. Within about a millionth of a second, quarks and gluons became permanently confined in hadrons, the kind of particles which exist today. By colliding proton-proton and heavy ions at high energies at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have started to obtain signatures of this primordial form of matter. We will discuss recent results from the LHC experiments and future perspectives for such studies. |