Just four days later CERN completed it's transition from protons to lead ion beams and the results of the first few runs are now available for all to see.
These first set of images are from the ATLAS detector.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Smashing Baby: Lead Ion Collisions from the LHC
In November CERN announced the intention of the LHC to switch from protons to lead ions - lead stripped of their electrons - in order to probe "matter as it would have been in the first instants of the Universe’s existence".
Just four days later CERN completed it's transition from protons to lead ion beams and the results of the first few runs are now available for all to see.
These first set of images are from the ATLAS detector.
Just four days later CERN completed it's transition from protons to lead ion beams and the results of the first few runs are now available for all to see.
These first set of images are from the ATLAS detector.
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