LHC Update: Lead Ion Collisions and Trapped Antimatter

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in the very early universe. Meanwhile, other CERN researchers...

25 November 2010

By Chris Smith.

Part of the show A Decade of Living in Space

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First Gold Beam-Beam Collision Events at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at 100 - 100 GeV/c per beam recorded by the STAR detector.

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CC-BY-SA - Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in the very early universe. Meanwhile, other CERN researchers have trapped an antihydrogen antiatom...

Find out more:

ALICE experiment announces first results from LHC's lead-ion collisions, Symmetry Breaking

Trapped Antihydrogen, Nature