Recent results from heavy-ion collisions at the LHC
Iwona Grabowska-Bold (Krakow)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is capable of accelerating proton and nucleus beams to ultra-relativistic velocities and provides collisions at unprecedented center-of-mass energy. The physics programme spans from precision measurements of processes predicted by the Standard Model (SM), through searches and tests of multiple theories beyond SM to studies of the quark-gluon plasma - a deconfined state of quarks and gluons. Although, most of the year the LHC collides proton beams, it also provides heavy-ion (HI) collisions. All four experiments, ALICE, ATLAS, LHCb and CMS, have HI physics programmes established based on lead-lead, proton-lead, and reference proton-proton collisions. In this talk basic concepts of ultra-relativistic HI physics will be introduced. Physics opportunities with two extreme categories of centrality classes (central and ultra-peripheral) will be discussed. The selection of recent measurements from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments will be reviewed. A talk will be concluded with a brief discussion of the future HI data taking.