Published 1995 | Version v1
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Heavy ions with the large hadron collider and the alice detector

  • 1. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (Germany)
  • 2. CERN, PPE Division, Geneva (Swaziland)

Description

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction at CERN is also planned as a heavy ion collider with lead ions colliding at an energy of 2.7 + 2.7 ATeV. This corresponds to collisions of matter with cosmic rays of the utmost energies observed so far promising the study of new and exciting aspects of physics. Minor improvements of the newly commissioned lead ion source at the CERN SPS are necessary in order to provide a luminosity of L 2 x 1027 cm-2s-1. The detector ALICE has been chosen as the third detector for the LHC and will be dedicated to the physics of these nuclear collisions and also to the large cross section physics in p + p collisions. (author)

Part of:
The international nuclear physics conference. Nuclear physics--at the frontiers of knowledge

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Sientific.
Imprint Place
Singapore (Singapore)
Imprint Title
The international nuclear physics conference. Nuclear physics--at the frontiers of knowledge
Imprint Pagination
863 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 712-722.

Conference

Title
International nuclear physics conference.
Acronym
INPC'95
Dates
21-26 Aug 1995.
Place
Beijing (China).

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