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Experimental Setup

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN outside of Geneva, Switzerland. Although it was primarily designed to collide protons, the machine is also capable of colliding heavy ions. This program began in November 2010 with the first lead ion collisions.

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Angerami, A. (2014). Experimental Setup. In: Jet Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01219-3_3

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