Tuesday, 4th of June, 16.00
(16.00 Coffee & Cake in the foyer, 16.30 talk & discussion)
Lecture Hall III
Very high energy densities are reached in ultra-relativistic collisions of heavy ions. Under these conditions, the confinement in strongly-interacting matter is lifted, and a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is formed. At the highest temperatures realized in the laboratory, this system offers us the opportunity to study QCD matter under extreme conditions.
The successful heavy-ion program at the LHC provides data of increasing precision. Silvia Masciocchi (Universität Heidelberg und GSI Darmstadt) will illustrate how experimental evidence supports the description of the QGP by fluid dynamics. This description together with neural networks and Bayesian inference allow to determine fundamental properties of QCD with increasing precision.