MLL-Kolloquium: Prof. Helmut Satz (Univ. Bielefeld): The Temperature of the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Thursday 23 Apr 2015, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminarraum 127, Erdgeschoss/Nord (TUM Physik II)

At sufficiently high energy density, strongly interacting matter is predicted to become a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons. I analyze the behavior of heavy quark-antiquark bound states (quarkonia) in such a deconfined medium and show how the results can be used to determine the temperature of the quark-gluon plasma. The analysis is then applied to quarkonium production experiments in high energy heavy ion collisions.

Abstract kolloquium-23-04-15.pdf