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Teilchentee SS 2024
Seminar at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University
Thursdays at 16:15 in Room 106 Philosophenweg 12
Before each seminar, the speaker gives an informal pre-talk, introducing the MSc and PhD students at the ITP to the broader context of the topic of the seminar.
Pre-talks start at 15:30.
Organizers: Caroline Heneka, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Ayodele Ore
Date: 16.05.24
Speaker: Giuliano Giacalone (ITP)
Title: Imaging atomic nuclei at high-energy colliders: a new window onto the strong nuclear force
Abstract
Recent experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) indicate that multi-particle correlation measurements in the soft sector of heavy-ion collisions probe the details of the spatial distributions of nucleons in the colliding ions. These findings have lead to remarkable advances in matching notions from low-energy nuclear physics to hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions, which I shall discuss in this talk. I show that nuclear structure theory is today an integral part of the hydrodynamic framework of heavy-ion collisions, and that issues opened by collider data have improved the state-of-the-art of this area in several directions. I argue that this has opened a new direction in nuclear physics research, and highlight prospects and benefits from future studies (both theoretical and experimental) connecting effective descriptions of QCD matter across different energy scales.
