Two UT Austin physicists were part of a collaboration that won the Breakthrough Prize for work at the Large Hadron Collider.

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed,” CERN ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold ...

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating ...

CERN scientists used the Large Hadron Collider to create gold nuclei through near-miss collisions of lead atoms. Discover how ...

Once a lead nucleus has transformed by losing protons, it is no longer in the perfect orbit that keeps it circulating inside the vacuum beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider. In a matter of ...

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have ...