Objetivo
The understanding of the properties of dense strongly interacting matter and experimental studies of these properties are of fundamental importance for establishing quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as the basic theory of strong interactions. One of the main properties of QCD is the confinement of quarks and gluons into hadrons. However, two phase transitions are predicted to occur when the baryon density or the temperature of the system becomes very high. One is the deconfinement transition when hadrons dissolve to quarks and gluons, and the other is the restoration of chiral symmetry, obeyed by the basic theory but spontaneously broken on the hadron level.
The participants in this project have been working on problems connected with phase transitions and modelling the heavy-ion collisions.
The specific goals of this project are: to develop the description of the approach to equilibrium in the QGP using kinetic theory as it is very important for the experimental efforts to verify the existence of QGP; to understand and to separate the final state interaction effects in intensity interferometry as these interactions distort the measured correlations, especially at small relative momenta; to study the phase diagram of the strongly interacting matter using both the lattice techniques and phenomenological approaches as the latter includes the possibility of investigating a system of superdense hadron gas; and calculating the photon and lepton pair rates in high energy nuclear collisions. Electromagnetic emission is particularly interesting since it contains information from the early stages of the collision.
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00014 Helsinki
Finlandia