V Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy

Session

TH Colloquium

14 Oct 2009, 14:00

TH Auditorium (CERN)

7. RHIC and the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- from qualitative discovery to quantitative characterization

Mr Ulrich Heinz (The Ohio State University)

14/10/2009, 14:00

Talk

Heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) produce an extremely hot and dense, but shortlived state of thermalized, strongly interacting matter, the quark-gluon plasma. The discoveries of strong anisotropic collective flow in the soft particle sector, strong suppression of high-pt particles and of jet-like correlations in the hard sector, and of a quark-coalescence...