Speaker
Prof.
Berndt Mueller
(Duke University)
Description
Since the year 2000, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has explored
the properties of hot QCD matter in an energy regime where hard QCD probes
and ab-initio calculations are available. The results from RHIC have led to a
dramatic revision of our notion of the quark-gluon plasma as a strongly coupled,
nearly inviscid liquid highly opaque to probes carrying open color, i.e. quarks and
gluons).However, many details of this new picture remain fuzzy. My lecture will
give a preview of the opportunities opened up by the LHC, the RHIC upgrades,
and theoretical advances during the next decade to answer some of the many
remaining questions about the physics of hot QCD matter.
Author
Prof.
Berndt Mueller
(Duke University)
