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Selected Topics from the Experiments with High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions: Hot QCD in the Laboratory

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The main aspects of the physics of heavy-ion collisions are presented, as well as the fundamental features of the study of hot QCD in the laboratory. Thus, it is first included a detailed description of the soft probes of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation (centrality of a heavy-ion collision, particle production, particle identification, particle spectra, particle yields at freeze-out, freeze-out temperature and thermal models, the radial flow, baryon anomaly, and elliptic flow). Also, the current state-of-the-art of the hard probes of QGP is exposed (jet quenching with hadron observables, particle correlations at high-p\(_T\), jet quenching with fully reconstructed jets, experimental aspects of jet reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions, jets in AA collisions at the LHC, jet fragmentation, energy loss of the heavy-flavor, and thermalization of charm). Finally, the important questions connected to quarkonia (J/\(\varPsi \) R\(_{AA}\) at RHIC and the LHC, sequential suppression of quarkonia, J/\(\varPsi \) \(\nu _2\), and cold nuclear matter effects) are discussed.

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Płoskoń, M. (2015). Selected Topics from the Experiments with High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions: Hot QCD in the Laboratory. In: Merino, C. (eds) Lectures on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12238-0_3

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