Heavy-Ion Physics with the CMS and ATLAS Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider

Heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) provide an opportunity for an unprecedented expansion of the study of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) in systems with extremely high energy density. In this report we will discuss and compare the capabilities of the ATLAS and CMS experiments for physics studies using heavy-ion collisions. The ATLAS and CMS detectors have been designed to perform high precision studies in pp collisions. Both feature precision tracking systems, hermetic calorimetry over a wide range of pseudorapidity and large acceptance muon spectrometers. We find that both experiments should perform very well for heavy-ion collisions, especially for studying hard probes of the dense partonic medium such as: heavy quarks and quarkonia with an emphasis on the b and Upsilon; high p_T jets; photons and Z^0 bosons.