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  1. Accelerators - CERN

    The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful accelerator in the world. It boosts particles, such as protons, which form all the matter we know. Accelerated to a speed close to that of light, they collide …

  2. From partons to hadrons - CERN

    Oct 9, 2023 · They were able to follow the parton-to-hadron evolution from the parton shower stage, when the quarks and gluons are deconfined, to the hadronic phase, when the partons are confined …

  3. The Large Hadron Collider | CERN

    Nov 28, 2010 · The Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with …

  4. Facts and figures about the LHC - CERN

    Facts and figures about the LHC Why is it called the “Large Hadron Collider”? "Large" refers to its size, approximately 27km in circumference "Hadron" because it accelerates protons or ions, which belong …

  5. 59 new hadrons and counting - CERN

    Mar 3, 2021 · The first hadron discovered at the LHC, χb (3P), was discovered by ATLAS, and the most recent ones include a new excited beauty strange baryon observed by CMS and four tetraquarks …

  6. A bestiary of exotic hadrons - CERN

    Feb 20, 2025 · The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered 76 new particles so far. In addition to discovering the unique Higgs boson, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has …

  7. ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC - CERN

    May 8, 2025 · In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider …

  8. Grand collisionneur de hadrons - CERN

    Feb 16, 2015 · Que se passe-t-il au LHC ? Saviez-vous que vous pouvez suivre en direct ce qui se passe dans l'accélérateur le plus puissant du monde ? « LHC Page 1 » donne un aperçu en temps …

  9. Home | CERN

    CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the …

  10. A ten-year journey through the quark–gluon plasma and beyond

    Nov 9, 2022 · Such a description is achieved with the crucial inclusion of a small QGP viscosity, which is the smallest ever determined and thus establishes the QGP as the most perfect liquid. Hadron …