Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)
Sala Seminarios IFIC
Edf. Institutos de Investigación
Descripción
The experimental program of heavy ion collisions at the LHC will start in four years from now. The center of mass energy of the collisions will be more than twenty times larger than the present ones. This difference is not only quantitative, but, mainly, qualitative: for the first time, processes with large virtualities (of the order of several hundred GeV) will be measured in heavy ion collisions. On the other hand the very small-x region of the proton and nucleus structure functions will be reached. In this region, the dominance of non-linear effects determines a new regime in the QCD dynamics. I will review the new opportunities at the LHC together with the lessons that we have already learned at RHIC.