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Nucleus-Nucleus collisions at the LHC!<br />

SPS RHIC LHC<br />

s NN [GeV] 17.3 200 5500<br />

dN ch /dy 450 800 1600<br />

ε [GeV/fm 3 ] 3 5.5 ~ 10<br />

• large ε deeper in deconfinement region<br />

closer <strong>to</strong> “ideal” behaviour?<br />

• large cross section for “hard probes” !<br />

a new set of <strong>to</strong>ols <strong>to</strong> probe the medium properties<br />

e.g.:<br />

Pb Pb<br />

b<br />

b<br />

b<br />

8-th Summer School on Nuclear <strong>Physics</strong>, 3-12/07/12<br />

b<br />

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