“School of Particles And Accelerator”
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| Paper IPM / Particles And Accelerator / 8896 |
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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 psN N = 5.5 TeV, 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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