Journal article
CMS Physics Technical Design Report: Addendum on High Density QCD with Heavy Ions
Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, Vol.34(11), pp.2307-2455
2007
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/34/11/008
Abstract
This report presents the capabilities of the CMS experiment to explore the rich heavy-ion physics programme offered by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The collisions of lead nuclei at energies , will probe quark and gluon matter at unprecedented values of energy density. The prime goal of this research is to study the fundamental theory of the strong interaction — Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) — in extreme conditions of temperature, density and parton momentum fraction (low-x). This report covers in detail the potential of CMS to carry out a series of representative Pb-Pb measurements. These include "bulk" observables, (charged hadron multiplicity, low pT inclusive hadron identified spectra and elliptic flow) which provide information on the collective properties of the system, as well as perturbative probes such as quarkonia, heavy-quarks, jets and high pT hadrons which yield "tomographic" information of the hottest and densest phases of the reaction.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- CMS Physics Technical Design Report: Addendum on High Density QCD with Heavy Ions
- Creators
- D D'EnterriaM Ballintijn - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM Bedjidian - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1D Hofman - University of Illinois ChicagoO Kodolova - Moscow State UniversityC Loizides - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyI P LokthinC Lourenço - CERNC Mironov - University of Illinois ChicagoS V PetrushankoC Roland - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyG Roland - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyF Sikler - Hungarian Academy of SciencesG Veres - Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCMS Collaboration
- Contributors
- Y Onel (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, Vol.34(11), pp.2307-2455
- DOI
- 10.1088/0954-3899/34/11/008
- ISSN
- 0954-3899
- eISSN
- 1361-6471
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2007
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199712902771
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