The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Volker Koch, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, on “The Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter” on Friday, March 30, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245.
Volker Koch
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss some of the properties of strongly interacting matter at temperatures in excess of several trillion Kelvin. Experiments colliding heavy nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Ion Brookhaven (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have revealed many interesting properties of the plasma of quark and gluons created in these collision, such as its near perfect fluidity. I will review some of these findings and will discuss recent efforts to study the properties of strongly interacting matter at finite density and the search for a possible critical point of the QCD phase diagram.
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