Heavy Ion Physics in CMS

This note summarizes the CMS potential for Heavy Ions Collisions studies. The main physics topic is the study of Y to muon pair decays in view of Y family supression studies, with a detailed discussion of muon reconstruction efficiencies and purities in conditions of central Pb-Pb collisions. We als...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Baur, G, Bedjidian, Marc, Chatrchyan, Serguei, Contardo, Didier, Damgov, Jordan, De Min, Alberto, Denegri, Daniel, Drapier, Olivier, Geist, Walter, Genchev, Vladimir, Haroutunian, Roger, Hayrapetyan, M G, Hencken, K, Jenkovszky, L L, Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang, Kharlov, Yuri, Kodolova, Olga, Kotlinski, Danek, Kruglov, Nikolai A, Kva, R
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2000
Materias:
Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/687318
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Sumario:This note summarizes the CMS potential for Heavy Ions Collisions studies. The main physics topic is the study of Y to muon pair decays in view of Y family supression studies, with a detailed discussion of muon reconstruction efficiencies and purities in conditions of central Pb-Pb collisions. We also discuss energy flow and impact parameter measurements, the observability of continuum muon pairs and of Z to mu + mu decays, and of jets and hard direct photons as a means to study jet quenching. We also discuss pA interactions as well as gamma-gamma physics. The instrumental specificities of CMS for heavy ion running are discussed, including trigger and data acquisition aspects.

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