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Determining the Emergent Properties of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter

Discover the fundamental forces, electromagnetism, gravity, weak and strong interactions, and particle physics of nuclear matter. Dive into Lagrangian equations, QED vertices, and QCD vertices to understand many-body physics and phase diagrams. Gain insights into high-energy physics and the emergent properties of a quark-gluon plasma. Conclusions point towards consistent understanding with further research needed for quantitative descriptions and improved modeling.

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Determining the Emergent Properties of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter

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  1. Determining the Emergent Properties of Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter W. A. Horowitz University of Cape Town September 26th, 2011 AIMS Day

  2. Four Fundamental Forces Electromagnetism Gravity starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov John Maarschalk, travelblog.portfoliocollection.com Weak Strong lhs.lps.org/staff/sputnam/chem_notes/tritium_decay.gif AIMS Day

  3. E&M Particle Physics Well Understood • Lagrangian known: • QED Vertex: • Ex. of Precision QED: g - 2 Gabrielse et al., PRL97 (2006) Hanneke, Fogwell, and Gabrielse, PRL100 (2008) AIMS Day

  4. E&M and Phase Diagrams • Many body physics less well understood Water Hydrogen Calculated, BurkhardMilitzer, Diploma Thesis, Berlin, 2000 www.sv.vt.edu/classes/MSE2094_NoteBook/96ClassProj/examples/triplpt.html AIMS Day

  5. QCD Particle Physics Well Understood • Lagr. known: • QCD Vertices: • Qual. & Quant. agreement w/ data ALEPH, PLB284 (1992) PDG AIMS Day

  6. What Are We Interested In? • Measure many-body physics of strong force • Test & understand theory of many-body non-Abelian fields Long Range Plan, 2008 AIMS Day

  7. Big Bang vs. Little Bang ALICE Collaboration High Momentum Particle t = 0 t ~ 1 fm/c t = - ¥ t = + ¥ Hadronization Hadron Gas Initial State Initial Overlap Thermalization QGP AIMS Day

  8. Why High-pT Jets? and even more with multiple probes SPECT-CT Scan uses internal g photons and external X-rays • Tomography in medicine One can learn a lot from a single probe… PET Scan http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Intro/Part2_26d.html AIMS Day

  9. QGP Energy Loss • Learn about E-loss mechanism • Most direct probe of DOF pQCD Picture AdS/CFT Picture AIMS Day

  10. Stunning Qualitative Successes • Compared to recent LHC Data • Compared to older RHIC Data AIMS Day

  11. Conclusions • Consistent picture of the emergent properties of a quark-gluon plasma is developing • Lots of interesting work to be done • Improve calculations, attempt quantitative description • Derivations with fewer approximations • Higher order corrections • Better modeling • Compare to novel RHIC and LHC data AIMS Day

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