Exploring the QCD Phase Diagram in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions at RHIC

by Prof. Nu Xu (Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA)

Tuesday 8 Dec 2009, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-69 (Colaba Campus)

Since the very moment of the discovery of QCD, scientists have speculated that under extreme conditions, high temperature and/or high density, a hardronic system will be transferred into a de-confined state where quark and gluon degrees of freedom dominate. Calculations based on modern quantum gauge theory have demonstrated the transition between a hadronic to a partonic system. More recently, theoretical calculations have also indicated a rich structure of QCD matter that varies as a function of baryon density and temperature.

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