The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasm: First Results from RHIC

por David d'Enterria (Subatech Nantes)

miércoles 25 abr. 2001 12:30 → 13:30 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies (sqrt(s)>100A GeV) aim at the production and study in the laboratory of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a deconfined (and chirally symmetric) phase of hadronic matter predicted by lattice QCD calculations. I will first review the experimental observables that physicists have at hand in order to probe and characterize the QGP properties. Then, I will present and discuss the first data from Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) collisions recorded during summer 2000, focusing mainly on the results of the PHENIX experiment.