Search and Study of Quark-gluon Plasma at the CERN-LHC

2009/01/01 by Tapan K. Nayak, Tapan Nayak, Bikash Sinha +1
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Plasma #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Strange matter #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-81-8489-295-6_9

15 pages, Invited article for the volume on LHC physics to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian National Science Academy, Edited by Amitava Datta, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and Amitava Raychaudhuri (Jan 2009)

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Abstract

The major aim of nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark gluon plasma (QGP), formed in extreme conditions of temperature and energy density. We give a brief overview of the experimental program and discuss the signatures and observables for a detailed study of QGP matter.

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