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Another long-standing mystery in particle physics has finally been solved. An international research team of the ALICE ...

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All experiments broke records in the final full operating year of the third run of the LHC.

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Physicists are using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to test key accelerator strategies for a new state-of-the-art Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that will reuse some of RHIC's crucial ...