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The fundamental constituents of ordinary matter are quarks, gluons and leptons. The quarks and gluons are not found to exist in a free state in nature. They are confined inside particles called as hadrons. However, they were in a free state in the micro-second old Universe. We will discuss the formation of such a primordial matter of de-confined quarks and gluons in the laboratory and its properties. This will lead us to address the question of how does the phase diagram of strong interaction (one of the four basic interactions that occur in nature) look like. We will discuss the recent advances made towards understanding the phase diagram of strong interactions.
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