Conveners
PLENARY 5 - Preparation for Heavy Ions in ALICE and other LHC experiments
- Emilio Petrolo (INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata-Universita degli Studi di Roma)
Description
Preparation for Heavy Ions in ALICE and other LHC experiments
Andrea Dainese
(INFN Padova)
23/09/2010, 09:00
Oral
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide lead nuclei in November 2010. Three experiments will collect data during the heavy-ion run: ALICE, which is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment, ATLAS, and CMS.
After the successful commissioning and proton-proton data taking phases, these experiments will face the new challenge posed by the extreme conditions of Pb-Pb collisions, with envisaged...