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The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter

Mueller, B. (2012). The Exploration of Hot QCD Matter. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/12090046

Berndt Mueller Duke University

Talk numberPIRSA:12090046
DOI10.48660/12090046
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Abstract

When nuclear matter is heated beyond a temperature of 2 trillion
degrees, it converts into a strongly coupled plasma of quarks and
gluons, the sQGP. Experiments using highly energetic collisions
between heavy nuclei have revealed that this new state of matter is a
nearly ideal, highly opaque liquid. A description based upon string
theory and black holes in five dimensions has made the quark- gluon
plasma an iconic example of a strongly coupled quantum system. In this
lecture I will survey the observed properties of the sQGP in the light
of the latest results from RHIC and LHC. On the theoretical side, I
will discuss the thermalization and entropy production problem and
origin and role of event-by-event fluctuations.