A Golden Age in Physics - Heavy Ion Physics at High Energies

A Golden Age in Physics - Heavy Ion Physics at High Energies

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences via YouTube Direct link

Date: 10 April 2019, 17:00 to

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Date: 10 April 2019, 17:00 to

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A Golden Age in Physics - Heavy Ion Physics at High Energies

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  1. 1 Date: 10 April 2019, 17:00 to
  2. 2 Introduction
  3. 3 In all fields, there are Golden Ages
  4. 4 Colliding black holes =ripples in space-time = gravity waves
  5. 5 Astronomy with gravity waves
  6. 6 Finding the "Higgs" boson
  7. 7 Four states of matter
  8. 8 Cartoon of heavy ion collision at high energy, creating a Quark-Gluon Plasma
  9. 9 Brief intro to "gauge" theories
  10. 10 Electric charge
  11. 11 What is light?
  12. 12 Modern view of light
  13. 13 Computing in QED
  14. 14 QED: magnetic moment
  15. 15 Modern theory of nuclei
  16. 16 Quantum ChromoDynamics
  17. 17 How couplings run, QED & QCD
  18. 18 Asymptotic freedom in QCD
  19. 19 How to compute in QCD?
  20. 20 Lattice QCD?
  21. 21 Confinement in QCD
  22. 22 Flux lines in QED
  23. 23 Need big computers
  24. 24 Digression: Fermi & nuclear fission
  25. 25 Nuclear Fission
  26. 26 Units in QCD: small, quick, hot
  27. 27 Pack the entire Earth inside a stadium
  28. 28 Phase transition to a QGP
  29. 29 Lattice: thermodynamics of QGP
  30. 30 History of the Universe
  31. 31 Finding the Quark-Gluon Plasma in heavy ion collisions
  32. 32 Hunting for the "Unicorn" in Heavy Ion Collisions
  33. 33 Why heavy ions?
  34. 34 Why heavy ions @ high energy?
  35. 35 Plateau in particle production, with many particles
  36. 36 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider @ BNL
  37. 37 Large Hadron Collider @ CERN, Geneva: E/A ~ 3000 Gev
  38. 38 RHIC experiments: STAR & PHENIX
  39. 39 LHC experiments: ALICE, CMS, ATLAS
  40. 40 Why skepticism about AA?
  41. 41 Is it thermal?
  42. 42 Elliptic flow "the more perfect liquid on earth"
  43. 43 With many particles: fixing geometry
  44. 44 Elliptic flow & hydrodynamics
  45. 45 Angular Particle Distribution
  46. 46 Viscosity at RHIC AND LHC
  47. 47 n/s in heavy ions & molecules
  48. 48 Lower bound on n/s
  49. 49 Open questions about using hydro
  50. 50 Jet quenching: the QGP "eats" jets
  51. 51 Jets in QCD
  52. 52 QGP "eats" jets
  53. 53 QGP "eats" jets @ LHC
  54. 54 QGP "eats" jets @ RHIC
  55. 55 Open questions about jet quenching
  56. 56 Phase diagram of QCD: moving back down in energy
  57. 57 QCD at nonzero quark density
  58. 58 The next Golden Age: low energy
  59. 59 Gertrude Stein about Oakland, California, ~ 1890:
  60. 60 Heavy ion collisions at low energy:
  61. 61 What I didn't have time to cover
  62. 62 "The Great Wave" of High Energy Heavy Ion Physics
  63. 63 Q&A

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