This week it's the turn of heavy-ion physics to take the spotlight

The ATLAS measurement compared data of 2.76 TeV lead-ion collisions taken in 2011 with proton-proton data from a dedicated run of the LHC in 2013

Scientists with ALICE have been awarded the European Physical Society's Lise Meitner Prize for their work on quark-gluon plasma

At Quark Matter 2014 this week in Germany, the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments are presenting the latest results from the LHC's heavy-ion programme

The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles

The Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 conference is taking place this week until 27 July in Birmingham, UK

How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision

Every two weeks, ion-source physicist Detlef Küchler refills the lead source for the LHC with pure lead 208

The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma

Accelerator team declares "stable beams" as lead ions collide with protons in first LHC physics beams of 2013

Preparations have been progressing steadily at CMS to receive collisions between protons and lead ions

For the last run before the two-year shutdown, the LHC is going beyond its original design specification and will collide protons with lead ions