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The ATLAS experiment is designed to study proton–proton collisions at the LHC. This paper reports on an evaluation of the ATLAS potential for heavy–ion physics. Most of the detectors retain nearly their full capability even in the presence of high–multiplicity soft background from nucleus–nucleus collisions. These studies show that, in addition to "day–one" measurements such as global observables and elliptic flow, heavy–quarkonia suppression and jet quenching, which are crucial probes to study the formation of a quark–gluon plasma, are accessible in ATLAS.
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(2006). Heavy Ions in ATLAS. In: Wu, X., Clark, A., Campanelli, M. (eds) Hadron Collider Physics 2005. Springer Proceedings Physics, vol 108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32841-4_39
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