PIRSA:12090046

The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter

Mueller, B. (2012). The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/12090046

Mueller, Berndt. The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter. Perimeter Institute, Sep. 11, 2012, https://pirsa.org/12090046 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:12090046,
            doi = {10.48660/12090046},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/12090046},
            author = {Mueller, Berndt},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2012},
            month = {sep},
            note = {PIRSA:12090046 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Berndt Mueller Duke University

Talk number PIRSA:12090046
DOI 10.48660/12090046
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

When nuclear matter is heated beyond a temperature of 2 trillion
degrees, it converts into a strongly coupled plasma of quarks and
gluons, the sQGP. Experiments using highly energetic collisions
between heavy nuclei have revealed that this new state of matter is a
nearly ideal, highly opaque liquid. A description based upon string
theory and black holes in five dimensions has made the quark- gluon
plasma an iconic example of a strongly coupled quantum system. In this
lecture I will survey the observed properties of the sQGP in the light
of the latest results from RHIC and LHC. On the theoretical side, I
will discuss the thermalization and entropy production problem and
origin and role of event-by-event fluctuations.