Kolloquien
Sommersemester 2016
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Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Otto-Haxel-Hörsaal
freitags 17:15
Vorträge
10.6.2016 17:00
KIP, INF 227, Otto-Haxel-Hörsaal
Festkolloquium anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Specht
The aim of ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics is the study of strongly interacting
matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and/or high matter density
using collisions of heavy nuclei. QCD predicts that at sufficiently high energy
density
there will be a transition from ordinary hadronic matter to a plasma of
deconfined quarks and gluons
- a transition which took place in the early universe
a few microseconds after the Big Bang and which might still play a role today in
compact stellar objects. Over the short time span of 30 years, experiments evolved
from light ion collisions at low energy at the Brookhaven AGS and the CERN SPS
accelerators over the first dedicated heavy ion accelerator, RHIC,
to the CERN
LHC, which in 2010 opened a new er
a in ultra-
relativistic heavy ion physics with
Pb-Pb collisions at energies exceeding the original ones by up to three orders of
magnitude. This talk summarizes highlights and insights gained from those 3
decades of study of hot and dense matter, the Quark
Gluon Plasma.