bringing the heavy (A=208) to the CERN Large Hadron Collider (unofficial account - written by a member of an LHC collaboration!)
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What are “electrons” anyway?
Electrons’ movements in atoms and molecules are so rapid that they are measured in attoseconds. An attosecond is to one second as one second is to the age of the universe.
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Heavy ions arrive in the ATLAS Experiment! 🎆
Last night, the Large Hadron Collider at @CERN collided lead ions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV. Take a look at these first event displays of the collisions.
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Not noble like @LHCXe but when you want ions round and stable, accept no substitutes. Congrats to the real LHC ion team!
Lead ions lead the way💫
The heavy-ion physics season starts for the experiments at CERN, as stable beams of lead nuclei circulate in the #LHC at the energy of 6.8 TeV (teraelectronvolts) for the first time ever, and for the first time during the #LHCRun3.
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The LHC will soon collide lead-ions after a gap of five years. ALICE is all set to take the lead-ion collisions data for a detailed study of the physics of quark-gluon plasma!
In this video: Marco van Leeuwen, ALICE spokesperson shares his excitement:
youtube.com/watch?v=x8NYyzGy…
I’m doubly magic, so *of course* I’m stable. OK?
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SAY SOMETHING!
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Or maybe you didn’t mean exactly that…
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Comments (16:57:41) Next: another ION cycle played with protons
Lumi requested from all experiments
No ions before tomorrow afternoon at least
Apparently, I’m all shiny!
In a recent research, the exchange of photons between highly relativistic heavy ions has shed light on the gluon structure of nuclei. Join tomorrow in person or watch the webcast of the CERN seminar where this result is discussed: indico.cern.ch/event/1187943…
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First lead-ion collisions✨
Last week, the LHC accelerated and collided test beams of lead nuclei at the record energy of 5.36 TeV, a first for #LHCRun3. The collisions provided the opportunity for the #LHC experiments to validate their new detectors and data-processing systems.
ALT Event displays of the first Pb-Pb collision of Run3 taken on 18 November 2022.
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CMS lights up with heavy ion collisions!
Last Friday, the LHC successfully collided lead ions at an energy of 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair!
CMS saw lead collisions at this record energy for the first time and recorded the majority of the luminosity delivered.
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The special test run at the CERN LHC with Pb-Pb collisions at record energy concluded today. This one-day run has provided ALICE with the opportunity to validate the new detectors and new data-processing systems.
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Heavy ions collide in the ATLAS Experiment! 🎆
On Friday 18 November, the Large Hadron Collider at @CERN collided lead ions at a record centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.36 TeV! Check out these stunning first event displays of the collisions. 🤩
I thought they canceled the run. Why are they knocking on the door *now*? #lhcionpilotrun2022
