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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the LEP tunnel at CERN is planned also as a heavy ion collider with lead ions colliding at an energy of 2.7 + 2.7 ATeV. This corresponds to collisions of matter with cosmic rays of the utmost energies observed so far. Minor improvements of the newly commissioned lead ion source at the CERN SPS are necessary in order to provide a luminosity of L = 2 × 1027cm-2s-1. The detector ALICE has been chosen as the third detector for the LHC and will be dedicated to the physics of these nuclear collisions and also to the large cross section physics in p + p collisions.
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Gutbrod, H.H. (1995). Heavy Ion Physics at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern. In: Letessier, J., Gutbrod, H.H., Rafelski, J. (eds) Hot Hadronic Matter. NATO ASI Series, vol 346. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1945-4_61
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