Opportunities for Heavy Ion Physics at the Large Hadron Collider LHC

Abstract

This talk discusses extrapolations to the LHC of several, apparently universal trends, seen in the data on relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions up to RHIC energies. In the soft physics sector, such extrapolations to the LHC are typically at odds with LHC predictions of the dynamical models, advocated to underlie multi-particle production up to RHIC energies. I argue that due to this, LHC is likely to be a discovery machine not only in the hard, but also in the soft physics sector.

arXiv commentPlenary talk given at Quark Matter 2006, Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov 2006; to appear in the conference proceedings

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