Speaker
Prof.
André Mischke
(University of Utrecht)
Description
In cosmology, it is assumed that matter, of which the whole universe and we are made, was created from a plasma of elementary particles in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. This Quark-Gluon Plasma is characterised by an equilibrated system of free quarks and gluons that are normally confined inside protons and neutrons constituting atomic nuclei. In this contribution, I will gave a brief report on the current understanding of this state of matter.
