Read article 'Hadron spectra probe nature of matter in Pb–Pb collisions'
In current understanding, the matter created in heavy-ion collisions – the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) – behaves as a nearly perfect liquid.
Read article 'Pursuit of deconfinement returns to the SPS'
On the trail from the SPS to RHIC to the LHC – and back to the SPS.
Read article 'ALICE measures multi-strange baryons'
The ALICE collaboration has measured the production of baryons containing two or three strange quarks in lead–lead collisions at the LHC, at an energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair, nearly 14 times...
Read article 'Strangeness and heavy flavours in Krakow'
The latest news on strangeness in heavy-ion collisions.
Read article 'Trends in isotope discovery'
Michael Thoennessen did not realize where documenting the discovery of isotopes would lead.
Read article 'Kaonic hydrogen casts new light on strong dynamics'
Hadronic bound systems with strange quarks, such as kaonic hydrogen, are well suited for testing chiral dynamics, especially in view of the interplay between spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking...
Read article 'ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems'
The ALICE TOF is made of 1593 MRPCs, each of which is 120 cm long and consists of a double-stack MRPC, with a total of 10 gaps 250 μm wide
Read article '…and measures suppression of single jets in heavy-ion collisions'
While primarily designed for proton–proton collisions, the ATLAS detector is also an excellent tool to perform measurements in the hot, dense environment of heavy-ion collisions, where temperatures ...
Read article 'ALICE measures the shape of
head-on lead–lead collisions'
One the many surprises to have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at CERN's LHC concerns the extreme fluidity of the dense matt...
Read article 'TOTEM probes new depths in pp elastic scattering'
Finding out more about the proton at LHC energies.
