Turning lead into gold famously used to be the goal of ancient alchemists, but their modern counterparts have actually ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

The ALICE experiment at the CERN particle accelerator center in Geneva, Switzerland, investigates the state of matter shortly after the Big Bang, also known as the quark-gluon plasma. By causing lead ...

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out the structure ...

Fulfilling the dream of medieval alchemists, physicists have observed the transmutation of lead into gold—through nuclear physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle ...

FRANKFURT. On September 26, 2023, the accelerator team at the CERN European Council for Nuclear Research in Geneva declared stable lead-beam conditions, ushering in the first data-taking campaign of ...

In a recent report, scientists at CERN's ALICE experiment announced that they conducted the first-ever measurement of the bottomonium, a type of exotic particles generated by smashing lead (Pb) ions.

It was 2023, and Sarah Porteboeuf’s fridge calendar had "heavy-ion run" scribbled in big red letters across the end of September and most of October. “My family knew that this period was the most ...