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The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles
The Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 conference is taking place this week until 27 July in Birmingham, UK
How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision
Every two weeks, ion-source physicist Detlef Küchler refills the lead source for the LHC with pure lead 208
The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma
Accelerator team declares "stable beams" as lead ions collide with protons in first LHC physics beams of 2013
Preparations have been progressing steadily at CMS to receive collisions between protons and lead ions
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
CMS has published its first paper on proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions
The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges
