Towards the first heavy ion collisions at the LHC

Friday 3 Sept 2010, 08:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN), Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

 This month LHC physics day will review the status of preparations towards the first heavy ion run at the LHC, foreseen for November 2010. The review will cover the status of the accelerator, of the experiments, and the theoretical/phenomenological perspective. 

 

This meeting is also part of the 4-week long TH Institute 'The first heavy ion collisions at the LHC - HIC10':

http://ph-dep-th.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-th/content2/THInstitutes/2010/HIC10/HIC10.html

 

 

The meeting will be broadcast via EVO (detailed info will appear at the time of the meeting in the "Video Services" item on the left menu bar)

For those attending, information on accommodation, access to CERN and laptop registration is available from http://cern.ch/lpcc/visits

1 Heavy Ions in the LHC - accelerator update

Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN BE)

Slides jowett.pdf

2 First results from ALICE and perspectives for the HI run

Speaker: Prof. Federico Antinori (INFN Padova & CERN)

Slides

• alice.pdf
• alice.ppt
• alice.ppt
• jowett.pdf

10:15 Coffee break

3 First Results from CMS and perspectives for the HI run

Speaker: Dr Ed Wenger

Slides CMS.pdf

4 First Results from ATLAS and perspectives for the HI run

Speaker: Dr Heather Gray

Slides ATLAS.pdf

12:05 Lunch break

5 Theoretical predictions for the first LHC HI run: an update

Speaker: Nestor Armesto Perez

Slides armesto.pdf

6 Exploration of Hot QCD Matter: The Next Decade

Since the year 2000, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has explored the properties of hot QCD matter in an energy regime where hard QCD probes and ab-initio calculations are available. The results from RHIC have led to a dramatic revision of our notion of the quark-gluon plasma as a strongly coupled, nearly inviscid liquid highly opaque to probes carrying open color, i.e. quarks and gluons). However, many details of this new picture remain fuzzy. My lecture will give a preview of the opportunities opened up by the LHC, the RHIC upgrades, and theoretical advances during the next decade to answer some of the many remaining questions about the physics of hot QCD matter.

Speaker: Prof. Berndt Mueller (Duke University)

Slides http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=39&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=75549

15:10 Coffee break