Speaker
Ermanno Vercellin
(TO)
Description
Heavy-ion experiments at RHIC and LHC are aimed at studying the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. The temperatures and energy densities reached in these high-energy Nucleus-Nucleus collisions lead to a form of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are no longer confined: the so-called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). A selection of recent results obtained in nucleus-nucleus collisions will be presented and discussed by keeping in mind the corresponding p-Nucleus and p-p results. Indeed, the latter turn out to be not only a reference for heavy-ion studies, but also a topic with intrinsic interest: similarities between “small systems” and heavy-ion collisions have been observed and will be highlighted in the talk.
