Title: The search for the early stage E/M fields and novel QCD phenomena
Speaker: Prof. Panos Christakoglou (Nikhef & Maastricht University )
Abstract: Few micro-seconds after the Big Bang the building blocks of ordinary matter, the quarks and the gluons, were not confined but could instead be found in a state called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN, by colliding heavy ions at ultra-relativistic energies, physicists recreate similar conditions to the ones existed during these first moments of the evolution of the universe, forming the hottest QCD matter on earth.
These collisions open up, in parallel, the possibility to study intriguing, novel QCD phenomena that are not directly accessible elsewhere, and are associated with chiral anomalies and consequently with parity violation effects in strong interactions. In this talk, I will summarise the status of the experimental searches at both RHIC and the LHC about identifying novel QCD phenomena using, what I believe is, the strongest magnetic field we know of.
I will conclude by sharing my thoughts about the future directions of this field of research.
Time: May 28th, 2024, at 10.00 AM.
Location: NBB (section meeting room)
Zoom:
https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/64454849871?pwd=cHUyQWRjMk9LZllnNXhHaUJ6d2xrUT09
Meeting ID: 644 5484 9871
Passcode: NBI2024