Seminars and Colloquia
Physics
Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma
Tue, Jan 24, 2017,
05:00 PM
at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building
Prof. Jean-Paul Blaizot
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, France
Abstract :
<span style="\\"color:" rgb(0,="" 0,="" 0);="" font-family:="" monospace;="" font-size:="" medium;\\"="">Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions allow us to study the densest and hottest forms of matter that can be created in the laboratory, states of matter that have existed in the early universe for only a brief instant, a few microseconds after the big bang. In this talk, I shall present a short overview of the latest developments in the field, by choosing a few highlights from the results recently obtained at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). I shall also discuss the evolution of ideas and concepts that have been triggered by these experiments.
