Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC: What's new ? What's next ?

Abstract

Towards the end of 2010, some 25 years after the very first collisions of ultra-relativistic heavy ions at fixed target energies, and some 10 years after the start of operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the LHC opened a new era in heavy ion physics with lead on lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV. After a short reminder of the main results from lower energies, this review highlights a few selected areas where significant progress has been made during the first three years of ion operation at the LHC.

Talk given at the 'Nobel Symposium on LHC results', Krusenberg, Sweden, 13 - 17 May 2013, to be published in Physica Scripta

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