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