Physics of Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions with Heavy Beams at LHC Energy

Abstract

We discuss current plans for experiments with ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions with heavy beams at LHC energy ($\sqrt{s}=5.5$ TeV/nucleon pair). Emphasis will be placed on processes which are unique to the LHC program. They include event-by-event interferometry, complete spectroscopy of the ${\rm Y}$ resonances, and open charm and open beauty measurements.

11 pages, 6 figures, Quark Matter 99 conference contribution, Nucl. Phys. A to be published

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• Energy loss effects on charm and bottom production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions
• Hydrodynamics of nuclear collisions with initial conditions from perturbative QCD
• Open charm contribution to dilepton spectra produced in nuclear collisions at SPS energies
• Charmonium production from the hadronic phase
• Pre-thermalization dynamics: initial conditions for QGP at the LHC and RHIC from perturbative QCD

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