GPPU Seminar

Date

13:00-15:00, June 07th, 2017

Place

Room 203, Science Complex A (H-02) map

Abstract

The strong interaction of quarks and gluons is at the origin of almost all of the mass of the visible universe. The emergence of multifaceted phases and structures in QCD, from quarks to hadrons, atomic nuclei and neutron stars, is one of the persistently challenging issues of modern science. This colloquium reviews our current understanding of the phases of QCD. Empirical information from nuclear collisions at the highest available energies will be surveyed together with results from Lattice QCD thermodynamics. Important constraints on the phase diagram arise from nuclear physics and the treatment of the nuclear many-body problem using effective field theory approaches based on the symmetry breaking pattern of low-energy QCD. The presentation concludes with a discussion of stringent constraints on the equation-of-state of dense baryonic matter implied by the existence of massive (two-solar-mass) neutron stars.

Point

GSP 1