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Heavy-ion Physics

Heavy-Ion Physics is a subfield of nuclear physics that studies the properties and interactions of atomic nuclei accelerated to high energies, distinguished by its focus on collisions involving heavy ions to probe nuclear matter under extreme conditions.

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Heavy Ion Physics

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The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

S. Chatrchyan, G. Hmayakyan, V. Khachatryan et al. · Journal of Instrumentation · 2008 · 5.5K citations · Full text

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Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration

K. Adcox, Stephen Adler, S. Afanasiev et al. · Nuclear Physics A · 2005 · 3K citations · Full text

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Highly relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions: The central rapidity region

James D. Bjorken · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1983 · 2.8K citations

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Range and stopping-power tables for heavy ions

L. C. Northcliffe, Roland Schilling · Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables · 1970 · 2.7K citations

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High-energy-physics event generation with PYTHIA 5.7 and JETSET 7.4

Torbjörn Sjöstrand · Computer Physics Communications · 1994 · 2.6K citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. MC
    M. Costa

    Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom

    268 publications · 31K citations

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  2. MW
    M. Weber

    European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland

    278 publications · 28.4K citations

    79

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  3. JM
    J. Milošević

    European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland

    207 publications · 23K citations

    78

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  4. JS
    J. Seixas

    European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland

    216 publications · 21.1K citations

    75

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  5. LM
    L. Masetti

    European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland

    178 publications · 24.4K citations

    75

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Institutions

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  1. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

    159 h-index

    76K publications

    9.1M citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    145 h-index

    39.7K publications

    4.4M citations

  3. Brookhaven National Laboratory

    Upton, United States

    142 h-index

    9.7K publications

    1.2M citations

  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    142 h-index

    9.9K publications

    845.3K citations

  5. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    128 h-index

    6.6K publications

    506.1K citations

  6. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

    Dubna, Russia

    126 h-index

    11.4K publications

    1.4M citations

  7. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    122 h-index

    9.6K publications

    1.2M citations

  8. Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules

    Paris, France

    119 h-index

    23.2K publications

    2.4M citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 1.4K publications · 123K citations

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  2. Physical Review C

    PRC · 1.8K publications · 110.3K citations

    148

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  3. Physics Letters B

    2K publications · 103.4K citations

    132

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  4. Nuclear Physics A

    1.6K publications · 74.2K citations

    113

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  5. The European Physical Journal C

    576 publications · 36.2K citations

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