Heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider: A review of the results from Run 1

2015/11/06 by N. Armesto, Enrico Scomparin, E. Scomparin
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Collider #Electroweak interaction #Hadron #Heavy ion #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Ion #Large Hadron Collider #Momentum (technical analysis) #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Photon #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider #Transverse plane #hep-ex #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjp/i2016-16052-4

published as Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2016) 131: 52 · 33 pages, 29 figures

arxiv created 2015/11/06 · arxiv updated 2016/03/01 · openalex publication_date 2016/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present an overview of the results obtained in pPb and PbPb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider during Run 1. We first discuss the results for global characteristics: cross sections, hadron multiplicities, azimuthal asymmetries, correlations at low transverse momentum, hadrochemistry, and femtoscopy. We then review hard and electroweak probes: particles with high transverse momentum, jets, heavy quarks, quarkonia, electroweak bosons and high transverse momentum photons, low transverse momentum photons and dileptons, and ultraperipheral collisions. We mainly focus on the experimental results, and present very briefly the main current theoretical explanations.

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