Prof.
Mike Lisa
(Ohio State University)
16/10/2009, 14:00
Correlations from Small Sources: Theory & Experiment
Talk
The phenomenon of collective, hydrodynamic-like flow plays a central role in the present understanding of the new state of matter (the quark-gluon plasma) produced in high-energy collisions between gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). It has long been assumed that collisions between protons produce insufficient particle multiplicity and energy density to produce a...