https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0926-1
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Exploring the LHC medium with direct photons
GSI, Planckstrasse 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
* e-mail: a.marin@gsi.de
Received:
18
September
2008
Revised:
16
January
2009
Published online:
13
February
2009
Heavy-ion collisions will enter a new era with the start of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A first short run with proton-proton collisions at the injection energy of 0.9 TeV will be followed by a longer one with pp collisions at 10 TeV. First Pb-Pb collisions at
TeV will take place in 2009. Three experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, and CMS) will study both pp and Pb-Pb collisions. A selection of results showing the capabilities of the three experiments for the study of the LHC medium with direct photons is presented.
PACS: 25.75.-q – / 13.85.Qk – / 25.75.Cj –
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