GLOBALHIATLAS

Measurement of the global characteristics of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions with the ATLAS detector at LHC

Coordinatore	WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE    more  Organization address address: HERZL STREET 234 city: REHOVOT postcode: 7610001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Talia Cognome: Tzahor Email: send email Telefono: -3996 Fax: -4135
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Israel [IL]
Totale costo	100˙000 €
EC contributo	100˙000 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-IRG-2008
Funding Scheme	MC-IRG
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-11-01   -   2012-10-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE  Organization address address: HERZL STREET 234 city: REHOVOT postcode: 7610001 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Talia Cognome: Tzahor Email: send email Telefono: -3996 Fax: -4135	IL (REHOVOT)	coordinator	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) soon to be commissioned at CERN opens a new energy frontier and a new era of quantitative understanding of the phase transition between hadronic nuclear matter and the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The primary and initial question for the relativistic heavy ion (RHI) program at the LHC is to establish whether the QGP formed at the LHC behaves like a strongly coupled perfect liquid as discovered at RHIC or whether it enters a new regime approaching the ideal QGP gas of weakly interacting quarks and gluons. The ATLAS detector has excellent capabilities to make a significant contribution to the LHC RHI program. This proposal deals with measurements of the centrality dependence of global characteristics of RHI collisions at LHC using the ATLAS detector. It focuses in particular on the measurements of charged particles and transverse energy pseudorapidity density, the inclusive particle spectra and the amount of the elliptic flow. These measurements can be carried out using the relatively small data samples expected in the first heavy ion runs at the LHC and they are likely to provide first answers on the nature of the matter formed in nuclear collisions at the LHC. A crucial pre-requisite for these measurements is to establish the methodology to define centrality and categorize the collisions according to the number of participating nucleons or the number of elementary collisions. Special effort will be devoted to determine centrality using the most reliable and universal approach based on the Glauber-inspired model of HI collisions and the statistics of the Negative Binomial Distribution.'