Colloquium Frank Geurts (Rice University)

19 september 2014

Friday 19 september, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331

Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

Title: "Dilepton Measurements at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider"

Abstract:
In the study of hot and dense nuclear matter, created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, dilepton measurements play an essential role. Leptons, when compared to hadrons, have only little interaction with the strongly interacting system. Thus, dileptons provide ideal penetrating probes that allow the study of such a system throughout its space-time evolution. Depending on its invariant mass, dileptons can help address fundamental questions ranging from chiral symmetry restoration, thermal radiation of a quark-gluon plasma, to heavy-flavor production in such systems. Detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab, have recorded a truly impressive data set with various colliding species and a range of beam energies. In this talk I will review recent dilepton results from RHIC and discuss its future plans.

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