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arXiv:2405.10785 (nucl-ex)
[Submitted on 17 May 2024]

Title:Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

Authors:CMS Collaboration
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Abstract:The heavy ion (HI) physics program has proven to be an essential part of the overall physics program at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Its main purpose has been to provide a detailed characterization of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of quarks and gluons created in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. From the start of the LHC HI program with lead-lead collisions, the CMS Collaboration has performed measurements using additional data sets in different center-of-mass energies with xenon-xenon, proton-lead, and proton-proton collisions. A broad collection of observables related to high-density quantum chromodynamics (QCD), precision quantum electrodynamics (QED), and even novel searches of phenomena beyond the standard model (BSM) have been studied. Major advances toward understanding the macroscopic and microscopic QGP properties were achieved at the highest temperature reached in the laboratory and for vanishingly small values of the baryon chemical potential. This article summarizes key QCD, QED, as well as BSM physics, results of the CMS HI program for the LHC Runs 1 (2010-2013) and 2 (2015-2018). It reviews findings on the partonic content of nuclei and properties of the QGP and describes the surprising QGP-like effects in collision systems smaller than lead-lead or xenon-xenon. In addition, it outlines the scientific case of using ultrarelativistic HI collisions in the coming decades to characterize the QGP with unparalleled precision and to probe novel fundamental physics phenomena.
Comments: Submitted to Physics Reports. All figures and tables can be found at this http URL (CMS Public Pages)
Subjects: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Report number: CMS-HIN-23-011, CERN-EP-2024-057
Cite as: arXiv:2405.10785 [nucl-ex]
  (or arXiv:2405.10785v1 [nucl-ex] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.10785

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From: The CMS Collaboration [view email]
[v1] Fri, 17 May 2024 13:48:38 UTC (13,557 KB)
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