Nettsider med emneord «quark-gluon plasma»

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Publisert 15. mars 2021 14:18

Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions offer a unique opportunity to study the nuclear phase diagram at high temperatures and densities. The matter under such extreme conditions probably has existed in the early Universe within the first few fm/c after the Big Bang. Therefore, it is very tempting to investigate the properties of the Little Big Bang in the laboratory, and to search for a new state of matter, predicted by the fundamental theory of strong interactions - Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), namely, a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons or quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

To describe such complex phenomenon one has to rely on phenomenological models, which can be subdivided into macroscopic, i.e. thermal and hydrodynamic, and microscopic Monte Carlo models, incorporating partonic and hadronic degrees of freedom in a consistent fashion. These models are indispensable for the comparison with the experimental data coming from current heavy-ion accelerators and for planning the new machines such as FAIR at GSI, NICA at JINR, and FCC at CERN, which is widely discussed nowadays.

In Oslo we use several MC models at our disposal, namely,  Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) and Quark-Gluon String Model (QGSM) for description of various hadronic and nuclear collisions, and HYDrodynamics with JETs (HYDJET++) model for  simulation of heavy-ion collisions.

Publisert 11. mars 2015 16:56

The mission of the HENP project is the exploration of the behaviour of nuclear matter under extreme conditions and in particular the Quark-Gluon Plasma, which existed for about a microsecond after the Big Bang, and which can be recreated in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions in the laboratory. The HENP project uses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and the dedicated heavy-ion experiment ALICE to produce and study the Quark-Gluon Plasma.

Publisert 17. feb. 2014 15:21
Publisert 4. nov. 2010 12:40