This year's Heavy-ion run

2024-11-10T12:00:00
Run 3 Heavy Ions

 

CERN News: Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins

On 6 November at 11.13 am, a new heavy-ion run began at the LHC, smashing together lead ions, containing 208 nucleons (82 protons and 126 neutrons), at an energy of 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair. For the next 17 days, every minute counts to take lead-lead collision data

 

2024 heavy ion run schedule
pp - reference run setup 26-27 Oct
pp - reference run 28 Oct - 3 Nov
Pb-Pb run setup 3 - 4 Nov
Pb-Pb run 6 - 25 Nov
End of Run 2024 25 Nov at 6 AM
EYETS 25 Nov 2024 to 12 Mar 2025
Private visits 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00)

 

 

Link to the event display and pictures in CDS

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