1. First Results from Pb+Pb Collisions at the LHC.
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Müller, Berndt, Schukraft, Jürgen, and Wysłouch, Bolesław
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HEAVY ion collisions , *LARGE Hadron Collider , *ION bombardment , *CENTER of mass , *RELATIVITY (Physics) - Abstract
At the end of 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started operation with heavy-ion beams, colliding lead nuclei at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon. These collisions ushered in a new era in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion physics at energies exceeding that of previous accelerators by more than an order of magnitude. This review summarizes the results from the first year of heavy-ion physics at the LHC obtained by the three experiments participating in the heavy-ion program: ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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