Heavy-ion physics studies for the Future Circular Collider

Abstract

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study is aimed at assessing the physics potential and the technical feasibility of a new collider with centre-of-mass energies, in the hadron-hadron collision mode including proton and nucleus beams, more than seven-times larger than the nominal LHC energies. An electron-positron collider in the same tunnel is also considered as an intermediate step, which would provide the electron-hadron option in the long term. First ideas on the physics opportunities with heavy ions at the FCC are presented, covering the physics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, gluon saturation, photon-induced collisions, as well as connections with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings of Quark Matter 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, submitted to Nucl. Phys. A

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• Charged-particle multiplicity density at mid-rapidity in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV
• Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV
• Gluon saturation and initial conditions for relativistic heavy ion collisions
• Centrality dependence of the pseudorapidity density distribution for charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV
• Constraints from the first LHC data on hadronic event generators for ultra-high energy cosmic-ray physics
• Radiative corrections to Zb{\bar b} production
• Measurement of the pseudorapidity and centrality dependence of the transverse energy density in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 2.76 TeV
• Heavy quark production at RHIC and LHC within a partonic transport model
• Thermal Charm Production in Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC
• The QCD equation of state and the effects of the charm

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