Conveners
Hadron Resonances
- In Kwon Yoo (Pusan National University (KR))
The NA61/SHINE experimental physics program is focused on searching for the critical point and on the study of the properties of the onset of deconfinement in strongly interacting matter. A scan of the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter is done by changing the energy of colliding ions (from 13A to 150/158A GeV) and by changing the system size (from p+p to Pb+Pb).
The main topic of...
The extreme conditions reached in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC are expected to produce a state of matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). As a consequence, several features, such as elliptic flow and chemically equilibrated particle production, are expected and observed in these collision systems. However, it has to be noted that,...
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a unique opportunity to study the properties of nuclear matter at very high temperature and/or high density. It is believed that resonances (like $K^{*0}$, $\phi$) are excellent probes for the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Particularly, $K^{*0}$ (lifetime $\sim$ 4 fm/c) and $\phi$ (lifetime $\sim$ 42 fm/c) can be used to study the bulk...
Measurements of the production of short-lived hadronic resonances are used to probe the properties of the late hadronic phase in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since these resonances have lifetimes comparable to that of the fireball, they are sensitive to the competing effects of particle re-scattering and regeneration in the hadronic gas, which modify the observed particle momentum...
