IIHE invited seminar: Studying the Quark Gluon Plasma at the LHC with soft and hard probes
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Prof.Marco van Leeuwen(Universiteit Utrecht)
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Europe/Brussels
Jean Sacton Seminar room (1G003) (IIHE, VUB)
Jean Sacton Seminar room (1G003)
IIHE, VUB
Description
abstract: The fundamental particles of the strong interaction, quarks and gluons, are normally confined in protons and neutrons inside nuclei. The goal of high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei is to create a state of matter where quarks and gluons are effectively free to move over larger distance, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), and to study its properties in the laboratory. I will introduce these topics and then present recent results from heavy ion collisions at the LHC and discuss what they tell us about the Quark Gluon Plasma. I will cover both soft probes, focusing on azimuthal anisotropy of the particle emission which tells us about flow fields in the QGP, and hard probes, i.e. high-pt particle production and jets, which probe the QGP by interactions.
