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NPP Seminar by Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (UH)

Date: Tuesday, May 2, 2017  at 11am
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University

Title: Scanning the perfect fluid with hadrons and dileptons
Speaker: Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (UH)

Abstract: Relativistic heavy-ion experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory have successfully reproduced the Quark Gluon Plasma in the laboratory, which is the smallest fluid known to humankind.  The QGP acts as a nearly perfect fluid whose flow fluctuations are extremely well described by event-by-event relativistic viscous hydrodynamics.   Additionally, the QGP can be scanned by particles produced in the early stages after the collision such as high pT particles. There is an enhancement of the flow fluctuations at high pT, which indicates the importance of energy loss fluctuations in a strongly interacting medium.  Recently, dilepton studies have gained attention since these particles allow one to scan different parts of the QGP evolution.  Here we use the state of the art IP-Glasma+MUSIC model to analyze their dilepton flow fluctuations where we find there is a suppression in the fluctuations, in contrast to both the soft and hard sectors associated with light hadrons.

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