Date: Wednesday Oct.30, 2013 at noon
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: Hot Quark Soup: Viscosity, Flow and Flow Fluctuations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Speaker: Matt Luzum (LBNL)
Abstract:
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions probe the properties of extremely
high temperature matter (~10^12 degrees), where there is expected to
exist a new phase of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma. These
experiments indicate the presence of a medium that behaves as a
strongly-coupled, almost-perfect fluid. I review some of the key
results that indicate this strong collective behavior, and outline the
current progress toward quantifying properties of the system, such as
the shear viscosity of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
high temperature matter (~10^12 degrees), where there is expected to
exist a new phase of matter called the Quark-Gluon Plasma. These
experiments indicate the presence of a medium that behaves as a
strongly-coupled, almost-perfect fluid. I review some of the key
results that indicate this strong collective behavior, and outline the
current progress toward quantifying properties of the system, such as
the shear viscosity of the Quark-Gluon Plasma