Heavy Ions at LHC: A Quest for Quark-Gluon Plasma
Abstract
Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, predicts a transition of the usual matter to a new phase of matter, called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), at sufficiently high temperatures. The non-perturbative technique of defining a theory on a space-time lattice has been used to obtain this and other predictions about the nature of QGP. Heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN can potentially test these predictions and thereby test our theoretical understanding of confinement. This brief review aims at providing a glimpse of both these aspects of QGP.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.1619,
title = {Heavy Ions at LHC: A Quest for Quark-Gluon Plasma},
author = {Rajeev S. Bhalerao and Rajiv V. Gavai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1619},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
26 pages, 31 Figures, 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. Needs style file insa.sty (included)