RUI: Probes for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

在布鲁克海文国家实验室的相对论重离子对撞机上进行并计划在欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机上进行的重离子实验中，提供对重离子物理的解释的理论支持对于夸克-胶子等离子体(QGP)可能形成的实验研究至关重要。在提出像QGP这样的新物理学之前，需要对传统的机制进行充分的研究和理解。这项提议涉及这些核碰撞中的粒子产生和集体核效应的物理学。在核介质中产生的强相互作用粒子的电磁探测器是首席调查员选择的工具。人们希望这项工作将使人们能够将所提出的QGP信号与在这些碰撞中产生的炎热和稠密环境中发生的所有其他复杂的强子现象分开。

0098760HaglinTheoretical support offering interpretations of the physics in heavy-ion experiments carried out at the relativistic heavy ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and planned at the LHC at CERN is crucial to the experimental study of the possible formation of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Conventional mechanisms need to be studied and understood fully before claiming new physics such as QGP. This proposal concerns the physics of particle production and collective nuclear effects in these nuclear collisions. Electromagnetic probes of strongly interacting particles produced within the nuclear medium are the tools of choice of the Principal Investigator. It is hoped that this work will enable one to separate the proposed QGP signals from the all the other complicated hadronic phenomena that occur in the hot and dense environment created in these collisions.