quark-gluon plasma

A mixture of weakly bound quarks and gluons, which are free to move on their own in what’s called a quark-gluon plasma.

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CERN experiments present results at Quark Matter 2015

There were presentations from ALICE, CMS, ATLAS and LHCb at the international conference on ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions this week

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Experiments
02 October, 2015
Experiments
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02 October, 2015

Quenching jets in hot dense matter from lead-ion collisions

The ATLAS measurement compared data of 2.76 TeV lead-ion collisions taken in 2011 with proton-proton data from a dedicated run of the LHC in 2013

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Physics
18 November, 2014

CERN experiments present heavy-ion physics at Darmstadt

At Quark Matter 2014 this week in Germany, the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments are presenting the latest results from the LHC's heavy-ion programme

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Experiments
23 May, 2014

Webcast: ATLAS probes quark-gluon plasma

Aaron Richard Angerami of Columbia University in the US presents "Soft and hard probes of high-temperature matter with the ATLAS experiment"

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Experiments
21 January, 2014
Experiments
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21 January, 2014

ALICE scrutinizes proton-lead run for quark-gluon plasma

The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma

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Accelerators
22 January, 2013
Accelerators
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22 January, 2013

Preparing the LHC for the lead-proton run

For the last run before the two-year shutdown, the LHC is going beyond its original design specification and will collide protons with lead ions

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Accelerators
16 January, 2013
Accelerators
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16 January, 2013

ALICE

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Experiments

CERN experiments to present latest on quark-gluon plasma

Heavy-ion experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will present their latest results at the Quark Matter 2012 conference

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Physics
13 August, 2012