Soft Physics from RHIC to LHC
Abstract
The RHIC program was intended to identify and study the quark-gluon plasma formed in the collision of heavy nuclei. The discovery of the "perfect liquid" is an essential step towards the understanding of the medium formed in these collisions. Much of data relevant to this was provided by the study of "soft" observables, which involve many particles of low momentum produced in nearly every event, rather than high momentum particles produced in rare events. The main results related to soft physics at RHIC are discussed, as well as their implications for the physics of the LHC heavy ion program.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.1474,
title = {Soft Physics from RHIC to LHC},
author = {Peter Steinberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1474},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
9 pages, 8 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC 2008), Eilat, Israel, November 9-14, 2008