The CMS Collaboration et al 2007 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34 2307 doi:10.1088/0954-3899/34/11/008
CMS Physics Technical Design Report: Addendum on High Density QCD with Heavy Ions
The CMS Collaboration, D d'Enterria1, M Ballintijn2, M Bedjidian3, D Hofman4, O Kodolova5, C Loizides2, I P Lokthin5, C Lourenço1, C Mironov4, S V Petrushanko5, C Roland2, G Roland2, F Sikler6 and G Veres (editors)2
Show affiliationsThis 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.
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24.85.+p Quarks, gluons, and QCD in nuclear reactions
25.75.-q Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
27.80.+w 190(less-than-or-equal-to)A(less-than-or-equal-to)219
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Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism
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Issue 11 (November 2007)
Received 4 September 2007
Published 19 October 2007
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CMS Physics Technical Design Report: Addendum on High Density QCD with Heavy Ions
The CMS Collaboration et al 2007 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34 2307
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