Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Observing a small fluid and its fluctuations at the LHC

by Prof. Jean-Yves Ollitrault (IPhT Saclay, France)

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG69 )
Description
Nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) create a
drop of quark-gluon plasma which expands into the vacuum like a fluid.
In this talk, I will review experimental observables that can be used
to probe this collective behavior.  I will show that quantum
fluctuations in the wavefunctions of incoming nuclei, followed by
collective flow, are likely to explain the structure of correlations,
which has been recently measured in unprecedented detail.