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Nuclear
Physics Colloquium
Venue: Physics Building, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, Seminar
Room PHYS 2.116
Time: Thursday, February 02, 4:30 pm (s.t.)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
Measuring and Interpreting
Anisotropic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Jacopo Margutti (NIKHEF Amsterdam)
The
main goal of high-energy heavy-ion collisions is to form and study a
macroscopic (in QCD scales) state of deconfined quarks and gluons in
local thermal equilibrium, usually called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP).
After explaining our current understanding of the bulk medium evolution
in such collisions, I’ll introduce one relevant experimental observable,
namely anisotropic flow, and how we measure it via multi-particle
correlations. I’ll show how measurements of anisotropic flow have helped
us constraining the bulk proprieties of QGP and disentangling the
effects of different stages of the collision. I’ll then discuss the
pending questions of the field and the most recent attempts to solve
them, which arose from a fruitful synergy between theory and
experiments.
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