Conveners
Parallel Session 1
- Greg Morrison (University of Houston)
Description
Parallel Session 1 in room Farish Hall 211
In an effort to better understand thermal behavior and particle yields in p-p collisions we recast the problem using the language of quantum information. In the last 50 years physicists have used the parton model, very successfully, to describe particle collisions. In the parton model the proton is put into a high momentum frame in which constituents are viewed as quasi-free. However, quantum...
In heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies that Large Hadron Collider (LHC) achieves, a hot and dense medium called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is created. Intriguingly, the collective motion of produced particles forms an almond shape, that is thought to be the signature of QGP formation. Colliding Xe-Xe nuclei in ALICE experiment at the LHC we can determine the initial state of the...
During a stellar core collapse, a large flux of neutrinos (1-100 MeV) is produced, escaping the core before any light can. If detected, these neutrinos can play a crucial role in providing both preliminary evidence of a stellar collapse, and an understanding of the mechanisms behind it.
The SuperNova Early Warning System 2.0 (SNEWS 2.0) is a worldwide network of neutrino detectors whose...
When a source of sound waves is active near the ocean surface, sound waves travel through the water and beneath the seafloor into the earth. The waves reflect from impedance changes in the earth and return to the ocean surface where sound measurements are recorded to then be processed and analyzed. From this study, a “picture” of the subsurface can be obtained that includes details such as...
