Heavy-Ion Physics with CMS

TL;DR

This paper reviews CMS experiment's capabilities to study hot, dense matter in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, highlighting analysis developments for understanding quark-gluon plasma properties.

Contribution

It provides an overview of CMS's planned analyses and readiness for heavy-ion physics research at the LHC.

Findings

CMS can study quark-gluon plasma properties

Prepared a wide range of physics analyses

Expected to produce competitive results in heavy-ion physics

Abstract

This article presents a brief overview of the CMS experiment capabilities to study the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The CERN Large Hadron Collider will provide collisions of Pb nuclei at 5.5 TeV per nucleon. The CMS heavy ion group has developed a plethora of physics analyses addressing many important aspects of heavy-ion physics in preparation for a competitive and successful program.