Speaker
Gergely Barnaföldi
(Wigner RCP)
Description
Shortly, milliseconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was formed of a dense and hot matter, the quark gluon plasma. The properties of this strongly interacting medium set the initial condition of the expansion of the Universe later on. Heavy-ion researchers aim to address the questions: How this matter look like? What are the physical properties of this state? Can we re-create this matter in the ultrarelativistic collisions of nuclei? In this presentation I provide an overview, where we are on the way to answer these questions, indeed what are the future prospects in high-energy heavy ion physics.
