Theoretical physics / Elméleti fizika

Claudia Ratti (University of Turin): Flavor hierarchy in the QCD deconfinement transition

Europe/Budapest
Tanacsterem

Tanacsterem

Description
Recent advances in the study of the QCD phase transition, using lattice QCD, have revealed a potential flavor dependent hadronization sequence of the deconfined matter as a function of the temperature of the system. This is of particular interest for the strange quark sector since the strange quarks are likely to be in thermal equilibrium with the light quarks. Lattice QCD results on quark number susceptibilities will be presented, together with recent LHC measurements from the ALICE experiment which seem to corroborate this scenario.