Description
On Friday 29 June 2012, a town meeting was held at CERN to collect input on the section of relativistic heavy ion collisions in the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The meeting featured short presentations of existing and planned future heavy ion experiments at the CERN LHC, the Brookhaven RHIC, the CERN SPS, the FAIR facility in Darmstadt and the JINR in Dubna. In addition, the meeting provided a forum in which individual scientists and groups could contribute with short comments and statements. The meeting counted 237 registered participants that covered all experimental and theoretical activities in the field. The meeting concluded with an open 2-hour discussion of the priorities in the field. The following text summarizes the consensus view of the scientific community on the priorities of the field, as expressed by the participants of the town meeting.
Primary authors
Prof.
Jean-Paul Blaizot
(CEA Saclay)
Jochen Wambach
(TU-Darmstadt and GSI)
Prof.
Krzysztof Redlich
(University of Wroclaw)
Urs Wiedemann
(CERN)
