Thursday, March 01, 2012, 16:00
WHGA/001
J. Schukraft, CERN
Abstract:
At the end of 2010, the CERN Large Hadron Collider started operation
with heavy ion beams, Lead on Lead at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76
TeV/nucleon, opening a new era in ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics
at energies exceeding previous accelerators by more than an order of
magnitude. This talk summarizes the results from the first year of ion
physics at the LHC obtained by the three experiments participating in
the ion program, i.e. ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS; comparing them where
appropriate with data from lower energies (RHIC and SPS), and focusing
on areas where significant progress has been made in the study of hot
and dense matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma.