U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Theoretical Modelling of Hot Nuclear Matter

该奖项支持密歇根州立大学的沃尔夫冈·鲍尔和初级研究人员与德国法兰克福大学物理系的霍斯特·斯托克合作。该项目将专注于研究高密度重子系统中的相变，从夸克被限制到夸克和将夸克结合在一起的强大力量胶子的传送器作为自由粒子的状态。这一转变对现代高能核物理非常感兴趣，从受限状态到非受限状态的转变细节将在这次合作中寻找。每个小组都带来了独特和所需的专业知识，以解决产生一个真实的相变模型的问题，而这反过来又将对解释2005年大型强子对撞机的实验结果非常重要。这两个小组将能够共同解决超相对论重离子碰撞的激动人心的物理学问题。

9981342BauerThis award supports Wolfgang Bauer and junior researchers from Michigan State University in a collaboration with Horst Stoecker of the Department of Physics at the U. of Frankfurt, Germany. The project will focus on a study of the phase transition in high-density baryon systems from a state in which quarks are confined to a state where quarks and the conveyors of the strong force which binds quarks together, gluons, act as free particles. This transition is of great interest in modern high-energy nuclear physics, and the details of the transition from confined to unconfined state will be sought in this collaboration. Each group brings unique and needed expertise to the problem of producing a realistic model of the phase transition which will, in turn, be of great importance in interpreting the experimental results that will come from the Large Hadron Collider in 2005. Together, the groups will be able to address the exciting physics of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions.