Theoretical Physics Colloquium

The pressure of hot QCD

by Prof. Mikko Laine (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Asia/Kolkata
AG-80 (Colaba Campus)

AG-80

Colaba Campus

Description
The free energy density, or pressure, of Quantum Chromodynamics, as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential, is of principal relevance to cosmology, neutron star phenomenology, as well as heavy ion collision experiments. Its study has a long history of more than three decades. In this talk I summarise the current understanding regarding very high temperatures, and discuss some of the physics implications that this understanding may lead to.
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