An overview of experimental results from ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC: Bulk properties and dynamical evolution

被引：34
作者：
Foka P. [1 ]
Janik M.A. [2 ]
机构：
[1] GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1
[2] Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75
来源：
Reviews in Physics | 2016年 / 1卷
关键词：
Heavy-ion collisions; High energy physics; Large hadron collider;
D O I：
10.1016/j.revip.2016.11.002
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摘要：
The first collisions of lead nuclei, delivered by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the end of 2010, at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN= 2.76 TeV, marked the beginning of a new era in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics. Following the Run 1 period, LHC also successfully delivered Pb–Pb collisions at the collision energy sNN= 5.02 TeV at the end of 2015. The study of the properties of the produced hot and dense strongly-interacting matter at these unprecedented energies is experimentally pursued by all four big LHC experiments, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb. This review presents selected experimental results from heavy-ion collisions delivered during the first three years of the LHC operation focusing on the bulk matter properties and the dynamical evolution of the created system. It also presents the first results from Run 2 heavy-ion data at the highest energy, as well as from the studies of the reference pp and p–Pb systems, which are an integral part of the heavy-ion programme. © 2016
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