Measurements of quarkonia produced in ultrarelativistic Pb+Pb collisions provide a means to probe the properties and evolution of the hot and dense medium created in those collisions. Promptly produced quarkonia are directly affected by the interaction with the hot nuclear matter, while non-prompt production allows for the study of $b$-quark energy loss. The studies of quarkonia production are...
Measurement of electroweak boson production in different collision systems are of great interest to understanding the partonic structure of heavy nuclei, and serve as a constraint on the initial state in larger collision systems. Their production yields in Pb+Pb with respect to pp collisions provide direct tests of both binary collision scaling and possible modification of parton distribution...
Extensive measurements of azimuthal anisotropy in relativistic A+A collisions, have provided invaluable insights on the expansion dynamics and the transport properties of the strongly interacting matter produced in such collisions. The recent results of flow measurements from the top LHC energy (5.2 TeV) to the top SIS energy (2.4 GeV) will discussed with emphasis on techniques,...
In this talk an overview of the heavy-ion program and the status of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), which is being under construction in Germany, will be given.
There are several different predictions for the behaviour of the gluon distribution in nuclei at small Bjorken x and experimental data are needed to choose among them. This is achieved by measuring the cross section of processes specially sensitive to this parton distribution.
The high flux of photons from lead ions at the LHC allows us to study photon-induced reactions in ultra-peripheral...
Measurements of direct photon production in heavy-ion collisions provide a unique tool to test proton structure and properties of the hot QCD medium. Unlike hadrons, direct photons are produced in all stages of a nucleus-nucleus collision and escape freely from the hot zone. Prompt direct photons can be emitted in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions and provide means to test the initial stage of AA...
The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS recently extended its program for the energy scan with Pb ions in the energy range of 13-150A GeV/c. In the year 2016 a sample of Pb-Pb collisions at 13 and 30A GeV/c was collected by the NA61/SHINE experiment. The NA61/SHINE measurements with Pb ions and the experimental techniques using spectators at the lowest energy available at the SPS are also...
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study
nuclear matter under extreme density and temperature.
NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility) is a new flagship project
aimed at the construction at JINR (Dubna) a modern machine providing
beams of heavy ions with the highest intensity ever
achieved in the energy range from 4 to 11 GeV per nucleon.
The main...
The possibilities of the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD) to register data from small systems like proton - proton collisions are studied with Monte Carlo simulations of proton - proton inelastic interactions at the energy range of NICA. Particle generators based on different models are compared. The production of protons, pions and kaons from pp collisions is studied through their mean...
