Large Hadron Collider (LHC) @ CERN

• Specifications:

  • 27 km circumference
  • 2 independent rings
  • Pb + Pb collisions @ 5.5 TeV/nucleon (~ 25 times RHIC energy !)
  • Luminosity: ~ 1027 cm-2 s-1

• HI experiments: ALICE, CMS

• 1st run: Mid 2005

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