The ALICE experiment at the CERN particle accelerator center in Geneva, Switzerland, investigates the state of matter shortly after the Big Bang, also known as the quark-gluon plasma. By causing lead ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out the structure ...

FRANKFURT. On September 26, 2023, the accelerator team at the CERN European Council for Nuclear Research in Geneva declared stable lead-beam conditions, ushering in the first data-taking campaign of ...

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming widely available base metals into precious metals. Early practitioners never ...

It was 2023, and Sarah Porteboeuf’s fridge calendar had "heavy-ion run" scribbled in big red letters across the end of September and most of October. “My family knew that this period was the most ...

In a recent report, scientists at CERN's ALICE experiment announced that they conducted the first-ever measurement of the bottomonium, a type of exotic particles generated by smashing lead (Pb) ions.

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The first article on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider -- designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators -- has just been published. In November 2009 ...