Moving High-Energy Nuclear Physics Forward at the LHC: A Heavy-Ion-Centric Perspective on the Near Future at the LHC

by Zvi Citron

Ben-Gurion University

at Physics Colloquium

Tue, 26 Mar 2019, 15:30
Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology (51), room 015

Abstract

At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), collisions of heavy ions achieve such an extremely high energy density that a thermalized medium of quarks and gluons, a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), is produced. Over the last several years, the heavy ion program at the ATLAS experiment (at the LHC) has achieved great success studying heavy-ion collisions and characterizing the QGP. In addition to the study of the QGP in heavy-ion collisions there has been a surprising observation of QGP-like signatures even in smaller collisions systems - pp and pA - which were not previously expected to produce a QGP. This result has forced the reconsideration of longstanding assumptions in the field and its full consequences are still under active exploration. The QGP program described above has focused primarily on hadronic collisions observed at mid-rapidity with forward rapidity measurements playing only a supporting role. Recently, interest has grown in forward rapidity measurements for identification of non-hadronic and semi-hadronic events, and this requires upgrading detector capabilities.
Measurements of interest in QGP studies and beyond, as well as plans for upgrading the detector, in particular a radiation hard photon and neutron detector for forward rapidity, will be presented.

Refreshments are served at 15:15.

Created on 19-03-2019 by Kats, Yevgeny (katsye)
Updaded on 19-03-2019 by Kats, Yevgeny (katsye)