ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 10 11 5 v 2 1 3 O ct 2 00 4 Heavy Ions — Prospects at the LHC

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 10 11 5 v 1 7 O ct 2 00 4 Heavy Ions — Prospects at the LHC

This is a review of the physics prospects for relativistic heavy ion collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The motivation for the study of superdense matter created in relativistic heavy ion collision is the prospect of observing a novel state of strongly interacting matter, the quark-gluon plasma. Experiments at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Col...

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 10 04 5 v 1 3 O ct 2 00 4 Jets in Nuclear Collisions ∗

Ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC open exciting new possibilities for jet physics studies in the presence of hot and dense nuclear matter. Recent theoretical advances in understanding the QCD multi-parton dynamics provide a good description of the quenching in the single and double inclusive high-pT hadron spectra. Measurement of the redistribution of the lost energy a...

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 10 20 4 v 1 1 4 O ct 2 00 4 Heavy Quarkonium π + π − Transitions and a Possible bb̄qq̄ State

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 06 06 03 7 v 2 3 O ct 2 00 6 Two - Jet Inclusive Cross Sections in Heavy - Ion Collisions in the Perturbative QCD

In the framework of perturbative QCD, double inclusive cross sections for high pt parton production in nucleus-nucleus collisions are computed with multiple rescattering taken into account. The induced long-range correlations between numbers of jets at forward and backward rapidities are found to reach 10÷ 20% for light nuclei at √ s = 200 GeV/c and to be suppressed for heavy nuclei and LHC ene...

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 04 04 14 5 v 2 7 O ct 2 00 4 NUCLEAR EXCLUSIVE VECTOR MESON

We calculate the nuclear cross section for vector meson exclusive photoproduction within the QCD color dipole picture and in the Regge approach. For the former approach, we have considered the phenomenological saturation model, whereas for the latter we use a model based on the dipole Pomeron framework. Theoretical estimates for scattering on both light and heavy nuclei are given over a large r...