Review of results using heavy ion collisions at CMS

Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

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Review of results using heavy ion collisions at CMS

arXiv:2006.05556

Abstract

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at the laboratory provide a unique chance to study quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme temperature ( $\approx 150 MeV$ ) and density ( $\approx 1 GeV / fm^{3}$ ) conditions. Over the past decade, experimental results from LHC have shown further evidence for the formation of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a phase that is thought to permeate the early Universe and is formed in the high-density neutron-star cores. Various QCD predictions that model the behavior of the low- $x$ gluon nuclear density, a poorly explored region, are also tested. Since the photon flux per ion scales as the square of the emitting electric charge $Z^{2}$ , cross sections of so far elusive photon-induced processes are extremely enhanced as compared to nucleon-nucleon collisions. Here, we review recent progress on CMS measurements of particle production with large transverse momentum or mass, photon-initiated processes, jet-induced medium response, and heavy quark production. These high-precision data, along with novel approaches, offer stringent constraints on initial state, QGP formation and transport parameters, and even parametrizations beyond the standard model.

arXiv commentPresented at the Workshop of QCD and Forward Physics at the EIC, the LHC, and Cosmic Ray Physics in Guanajuato, Mexico, November 18-21 2019. Complete proceedings are available at https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.30727

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