Seminar on Strong Interaction:"Recent heavy-ion results from the CERN-LHC"

by Dr André Mischke (University Utrecht)

Monday 28 Nov 2016, 14:15 → 15:45 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room 3344 (Physics Department (TUM))

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions allow the study of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities and temperatures. Quantum-Chromodynamics predicts that at such conditions normal, hadronic matter turns into a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons that are the constituents of atomic nuclei. Matter in the early universe must have existed in this Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) state within the first microseconds after the Big Bang. Today the QGP might exist in the core of neutron stars. After the compelling evidences for the existence of the QGP from the previous heavy-ion accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN marks the beginning of the exploration the plasma properties. An overview of recent results from heavy ions from the LHC experiments will be presented and discussed.