To study atomic nuclei and subatomic particles, scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to collide heavy ions—atomic nuclei completely stripped of their surrounding electrons. In these ...

During the five-week run, ALICE recorded about 12 billion lead–lead collisions—40 times more collisions than the total recorded by ALICE in the previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to ...

Probing the evolution of magnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions can offer key insights into fundamental physical phenomena, including the nature of the early universe. In heavy-ion ...

In heavy ion collisions (HICs), while inclusive observations have been a common approach, three-body coincident measurements involving one light charged particle (LCP) and two fission fragments (FFs) ...

Scientists have published a comprehensive analysis aimed at determining which factors most influence fluctuations in the flow of particles from heavy ion collisions. The results will help the ...

Theorists have calculated how quickly a melted soup of quarks and gluons -- the building blocks of protons and neutrons -- transfers its momentum to heavy quarks. The calculation will help explain ...

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