NPA (Nuclear Particle Astrophysics) Seminar: Abhijit Majumder, Wayne State University, “Resolving the Quark Gluon Plasma with higher precision”

Thursday Oct 13, 2016, 1:00 PM → 2:00 PM US/Eastern

WL 210

Over the last decade in relativistic heavy‐ion collisions, the modification of hard QCD jets due to their passage through the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) has turned from a discovery to a precision tool to study the internal structure of the QGP. We will focus on a variety of issues related to the use of this tool as a probe of the plasma. This will be followed by a brief discussion of some of the differing approaches to this problem and new insights being extracted from current measurements. With the ever growing amount and variety of data, and the increasing sophistication of theoretical techniques, the study of jet modification is morphing into a multi‐disciplinary enterprise involving computer scientists and statisticians working in collaboration with heavy‐ion theorists and experimentalists. We will conclude with a preview of these exciting upcoming developments and their potential to resolve the structure and dynamics of the QGP.

Coffee Hour with speaker for Students and Postdocs will be held 10/13/16 at 3:30 PM in WL-210

Sponsored by the Flint Fund, Wright Laboratory, Physics Department, and Yale University

Sponsored By: 

Flint Fund, Yale Physics, and Yale Wright Lab

Majumder_NPA_10132016.pdf

majumder_npa_slides_10132016.pdf