In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments

The observation brings physicists a step closer to finding the origin of collective phenomena in small collision systems

On Friday, 18 November, a test using collisions of lead ions was carried out in the LHC and provided an opportunity for the experiments to validate the new detectors and new data-processing systems ahead of next year’s lead-lead physics run.

The collaboration’s latest study of a “strange”, unstable nucleus known as the hypertriton offers new insight into the particle interactions that may take place at the hearts of neutron stars

CMS data recorded in 2010 and 2011 from lead–lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider have been released into the public domain for the first time

Our fifth story in the LHC Physics at Ten series looks at how the LHC has recreated and greatly advanced our knowledge of the state of matter that is believed to have existed shortly after the Big Bang

Linac3 is already producing lead-ion beams to test some crucial new equipment that could significantly increase beam intensity and quality

The ATLAS Collaboration has reported the observation of light-by-light scattering with a significance beyond eight standard deviations

Intel’s new Myriad 2 chip underwent tests at CERN’s SPS

The first collisions of lead nuclei mark the start of a new LHC heavy-ion run

The LHC had the unique opportunity of colliding xenon nuclei over several hours