News tagged with ion collider
Antihelium-4: Physicists nab new record for heaviest antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- Members of the international STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- a particle accelerator used to recreate and study conditions of the early universe at the U.S. Department ...
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Physicists observe antihelium-4 nucleus, the heaviest antinucleus yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1932, scientists observed the first antimatter particle, a positron (or antielectron). Since then, scientists have observed heavier and heavier states of antimatter: antiprotons and antineutrons ...
Mar 22, 2011 |
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A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe
(PhysOrg.com) -- After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the ...
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Large Hadron Collider pauses protons; enters new phase
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proton running for 2010 in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN came to a successful conclusion today. Since the end of March, when the first collisions occurred at a total energy of 7 TeV, the ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Explained: Quark gluon plasma
For a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe consisted of a hot soup of elementary particles called quarks and gluons. A few microseconds later, those particles began cooling to form protons ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter -- and new questions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A worldwide team of researchers have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe - the so-called "Big Bang" ...
Mar 04, 2010 |
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'Bubbles' of Broken Symmetry in Quark Soup at RHIC (w/ Video)
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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'Perfect' Liquid Hot Enough to be Quark Soup (w/ Video)
Recent analyses from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference "atom smasher" at the U.S. DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, establish that collisions of gold ions traveling at ...
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma
After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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The perfect liquid -- now even more perfect
Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Unique new probe of proton spin structure at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Scientists hoping to unravel the mystery of proton spin at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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CERN completes transition to lead-ion running at the Large Hadron Collider
Four days is all it took for the LHC operations team at CERN to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC. After extracting the final proton beam of 2010 on 4 November, commissioning th ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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New beam source for Brookhaven accelerators
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - the Relativistic ...
Oct 15, 2010 |
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A step closer to Big Bang conditions? More study is needed to confirm the latest LHC findings
Since December, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been smashing particles together at record-setting energy levels. Physicists hope that those high-energy collisions could replicate the conditions seen immediately ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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