Capabilities of the CMS detector for studies of hard probes in heavy ion collisions at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the CMS detector's ability to study hard probes like quarkonium and gamma-jet production in heavy ion collisions at the LHC, demonstrating its capabilities through detailed simulations.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of CMS detector performance for analyzing hard probes in heavy ion collisions, based on detailed simulation studies.

Findings

CMS can effectively detect quarkonium states in heavy ion collisions.

CMS demonstrates strong potential for gamma-jet measurements in dense QCD matter.

Simulations show the detector's capability to distinguish signals from background.

Abstract

The capabilities of the CMS experiment to study properties of hot and dense QCD-matter created in heavy ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with the perturbative processes (so-called "hard probes") are presented. Detailed studies from complete simulations of the CMS detectors in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.5$ TeV per nucleon pair are presented in view of two hard probes: quarkonium and $\gamma$-jet production.