Nuclear Physics Colloquium
Location:
Otto-Stern-Zentrum, room OSZ H6
Time: Friday, May 16, 2:00-3:00pm (s.t.) (plus 10min for
discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
CANCELED
From RHIC to
eRHIC: Exploring the Mysterious World of Gluons
Berndt Müller
(BNL and Duke University)
In
our everyday world, "glue", the gauge field responsible for the
strong interaction, hides inside protons and neutrons. While its
properties are formally encoded in the theory of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD), many phenomenological aspects of its
dynamics are still unexplored or poorly understood. How do
gluons conspire to confine Quarks inside hadrons? What does
gluon blackbody radiation look like? How do gluons generate 99
percent of the visible mass of the universe? Is there a limit to
the packing density of gluons? In my lecture I will discuss what
we know about the answers to these and other questions, and how
they can be studied in the next decade and beyond.
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