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Heavy-ion collision basics

Nuclear Experiment 2023-05-22 v1

Abstract

Basic concepts and terminology of relativistic heavy-ion collision physics are introduced and illustrated by experimental results. Most plots are taken from a recent ALICE overview paper arxiv:2211.04384 [nucl-ex].

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@article{arxiv.2305.11521,
  title  = {Heavy-ion collision basics},
  author = {Dariusz Miśkowiec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11521},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

6 pages, 10 figures, contribution to the 2023 QCD session of the 57th Rencontres de Moriond

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