ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Initial Conditions for Quark and Gluon Matter Formation at the LHC
The central goal of heavy-ion physics at the energy frontier is to create, and study in the laboratory, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a state of matter predicted by the fundamental theory of strong interactions. Current state-of-the-art interpretation of experimental data from the LHC experiments relies on Bayesian global fits of anisotropic flow vn and mean transverse momentum [pT], and provided the first quantitative measures of the fundamental transport parameters (shear and bulk viscosity) of the QGP. This represents the best understanding of the QGP so far. However, recent studies of the correlations between anisotropic flow and mean transverse momentum reveal that no existing Bayesian…
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