Modern Aspects of Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics (MVSpec)

Welcome

Course description

This course is dedicated to the physics of strongly-interacting (QCD) matter under extreme conditions. These include very high temperatures, such as in the very early times of our universe, or very high pressure, such as in the interior of neutron stars. These conditions are reproduced in the laboratory via collisions of heavy ions at ultra-relativistic energies, where a quark-gluon plasma is produced. We will provide a broad introduction to heavy-ion physics, both from the theoretical and from the experimental point of view.

Requirements: This lecture is aimed at bachelor and master students, as well as graduate students. Knowledge on the level of "Experimentalphysik IV" (PEP4) is sufficient for this basic introduction.

Kick-off: We will meet for the first time on Friday, April 25, at 11:15.

Lectures
Location: Golden Box, Physics Institute, Fridays 11:15 - 13:00

1. Introduction to QCD and heavy-ion experiments
2. Stages of heavy-ion collisions
3. QCD thermodynamics
4. Basics of proton and nuclear collisions
5. Hydrodynamic expansion of QGP
6. Correlations and Bayesian analysis
7. Initial State and pre-equilibrium
8. Hadronic phase and nuclei production
9. nPDFs and jet physics
10. Heavy quarks
11. Ion collision at lower energies
12. Electromagnetic probes
13. Recap of the course and outlook

Practical sessions
Location: Glas Box, Physics Institute, Mondays 14:15 - 16:00

1. Hydrodynamic simulations
2. Blast-wave fits
3. Kinetic theory and pre-equilibrium
4. Data analysis

Material

Practice groups

• Group Standardgruppe (Silvia Masciocchi, Aleksas Mazeliauskas)
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