Uncovering critical structures in strong interactions

Wednesday 29 Jul 2020, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Marek Gazdzicki (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

Speaker: Marek Gazdzicki

Please note that registration closes 24h prior to the session. Students who have registered will receive a reminder of this session.

The talk briefly presents history, status, and plans of the search for the critical structures — the onset of fireball, the onset of deconfinement, and the deconfinement critical point — in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions.

First, the basic ideas are introduced, the history of the observation of strongly interacting matter in heavy-ion collisions is reviewed, and the path towards the quark-gluon plasma discovery is sketched. Then the status of the search for critical structures is discussed — the discovery of the onset of deconfinement, indications for the onset of fireball, and still inconclusive results concerning the deconfinement critical point. Finally, I attempt to formulate priorities for future measurements — charm quarks versus the onset of deconfinement and detailed study of the onset of fireball.

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Join us via our Zoom room: https://cern.zoom.us/j/99495943593?pwd=L05Xa1ErTVJxWDFqM251ODBLWjc1UT09

Meeting ID: 994 9594 3593

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2020.07.critical.structures.SS.CERN1_2.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Uncovering critical structures in strong interactions

Speaker: Marek Gazdzicki (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))

2020.07.critical.structures.SS.CERN(1)_2.pdf