Speaker
Dr
Jean-Philippe Lasberg
Description
In these lectures, I first briefly review the emergence of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) as the theory of the strong interaction. I introduce concepts such as colour, Bjorken scaling, asymptotic freedom and confinement. This serves as a natural motivation for the study of heavy-ion collisions as a means a study the phenomenon of deconfinement at high nuclear densities and temperatures and the creation of a new state of matter such as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). I also introduce and discuss the basic tools to tune the conditions of such collisions and the most current probes of a QGP at RHIC and the LHC.
