Heavy Ion Tea

Soft Physics Prospects at the Large Hadron Collider
HIPPOLYTE Boris (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien)

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider will start providing collisions hopefully in the fall of 2009. By design, the experiments at the LHC show different capabilities in the soft physics sector. We will start with reviewing the detectors which can be involved for determining the main properties of the first collisions. Global observables such as multiplicity, thermodynamical properties or related to inclusive measurements will be described with a specific focus on the ALICE experiment. We will then discuss how multiparton interactions and dynamics can be studied as well as baryon production in p+p collisions at the LHC energies.