LHC sees Lead-Lead Collisions

As many of you know the Large Hadron Collider has switched from colliding proton on proton to using Lead Ions on Lead Ions.

 

A great article from the guardian (found here) describes the type of physics that can be probed from colliding heavy ions at high energy that is often hard to tease out of collisions like proton/proton or proton/anti-proton like the what is done at the LHC and the Tevatron respectively.

This is another really big landmark for the LHC and the next era of particle physics. I can't wait to see what results come from Alice and LHCb with these collisions.

See live event collisions from the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) webpage here

http://cms.web.cern.ch/cms/