Selected Experimental Results from Heavy-Ion Collisions at LHC. (31st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Singh, Ranbir; Kumar, Lokesh; Netrakanti, Pawan Kumar; Mohanty, Bedangadas
• Other Names: Sarkisyan-Grinbaum Edward Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in high energy physics. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-10-31
• Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Periodicals; Particles (Nuclear physics); Periodicals; 539.76
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/761474
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-7357

Abstract

Abstract : We review a subset of experimental results from the heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility at CERN. Excellent consistency is observed across all the experiments at the LHC (at center of mass energy s N N = 2.76 TeV) for the measurements such as charged particle multiplicity density, azimuthal anisotropy coefficients, and nuclear modification factor of charged hadrons. Comparison to similar measurements from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at lower energy (s N N = 200 GeV) suggests that the system formed at LHC has a higher energy density and larger system size and lives for a longer time. These measurements are compared to model calculations to obtain physical insights on the properties of matter created at the RHIC and LHC.