{
  "id": "1108.5438",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-08-27T11:32:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-08-27T11:32:17.000Z",
  "title": "The physics potential of proton-nucleus collisions at the TeV scale",
  "authors": [
    "Carlos A. Salgado"
  ],
  "comment": "Proceedings of the conference Quark Matter 2011, Annecy (France) May 2011",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "hep-ex",
    "nucl-ex",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "The LHC brings nuclear collisions to the TeV scale for the first time and the first data show the qualitative differences of this new regime. The corresponding phase-space available encompasses completely uncharted regions of QCD in which high-density or high-temperature domains can be identified. Proton-nucleus runs are essential for a complete interpretation of the data and for the study of new regimes dominated by large occupation numbers in the hadronic wave function. I comment here the physics opportunities for p+Pb runs at the LHC and d+Au runs at RHIC and the corresponding needs in view of the new Pb+Pb data from the LHC.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-08-27T11:32:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "tev scale",
      "proton-nucleus collisions",
      "physics potential",
      "lhc brings nuclear collisions",
      "hadronic wave function"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124036",
      "journal": "Journal of Physics G Nuclear Physics",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 38,
      "number": 12,
      "pages": 124036
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 925549,
      "adsabs": "2011JPhG...38l4036S"
    }
  }
}