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CERN Confirms Lead-to-Gold Transmutation in Groundbreaking LHC Experiment
- Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider observed the conversion of lead into gold during lead-lead collisions at the ALICE detector from 2015 to 2018.
- This transmutation resulted from high-energy collisions producing quark-gluon plasma and electromagnetic interactions that can remove protons and neutrons from lead nuclei.
- The ALICE collaboration quantified the process by measuring about 86 billion gold nuclei, which exist for roughly a microsecond and have a total mass of only 29 picograms.
- Marco Van Leeuwen highlighted the remarkable ability of the ALICE detectors to manage intense, direct collisions that generate thousands of particles, while simultaneously detecting events where only a handful of particles emerge, allowing detailed study of rare electromagnetic nuclear processes.
- The results open new ways to study nuclear transmutation and improve models used to predict beam losses, but the gold quantity remains trillions of times too small for practical use.
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Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have fulfilled the dream of 17th-century alchemists - turning lead into gold. However, it only lasted a fraction of a second and came at a very high cost, reports Nature.
People of science from the European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) have performed a true scientific performance: the transformation of lead into gold. The transformation was carried out in the experiments carried out with the help of Marel...
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Activist PostQuick Take: Gold from lead and ancient alchemy
I just wanted to bring this story to everybody’s attention…not because it is weighty or scary, just because it’s interesting. The Independent reports: Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold – Physicists have made an unexpected breakthrough The headline is actually inaccurate, the development is neither a “breakthrough” nor entirely unexpected. Scientists …
Scientists just used CERN to turn lead into gold for the first time
In a breakthrough that would envious medieval alchemists, scientists at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider have successfully transformed lead into gold, producing 89,000 atoms per second. Unlike traditional experiments that involve direct collisions of lead atoms, the ALICE team employed a unique method. By analyzing near-miss interactions where lead atoms narrowly avoid collision, researchers observed how […]
Alchemists Rejoice: In Historic Moment, Scientists Manage To Transform Lead Into Gold
Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have successfully transformed lead into gold using advanced particle acceleration techniques. The breakthrough, announced Wednesday, marks a stunning milestone in nuclear physics, though experts caution that the process remains far from practical for widespread use. The experiment, conducted in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), involved bombarding lead atoms with high-energy p…
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