Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

This paper presents two new hardware-assisted rendering techniques developed for interactive visualization of the terascale data generated from numerical modeling of next-generation accelerator ...

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...

Two possible methods of optically injecting electrons into a plasma accelerator are the self-modulated laser wakefield accelerator (SMLWFA) and laser ionization and ponderomotive acceleration (LIPA).