Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session Q2: Implications of QCD Phase Transitions |
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: Vickie Green, Vanderbilt University Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Landmark B |
Monday, April 24, 2006 1:30PM - 2:06PM |
Q2.00001: TBD Invited Speaker: |
Monday, April 24, 2006 2:06PM - 2:42PM |
Q2.00002: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Early Universe Invited Speaker: The new standard picture of the early, expanding and accelerating Universe is reviewed at an accessible level. The Hubble expansion, the Robertson-Walker metric, and the cosmological constant are discussed. Special emphasis is placed on the thermal history of the early Universe, with the goal of appreciating the relevance of the QCD phase transition. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 24, 2006 2:42PM - 3:18PM |
Q2.00003: Probing the Properties of the Big Bang Quark Matter Invited Speaker: The combination of experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and calculations of QCD thermodynamics done using the methods of lattice gauge theory are revealing the properties of the matter that filled the universe in the microseconds after the big bang. I will present a look at what we have learned recently, and what we may hope to learn soon. Given that the former includes surprises--who could have guessed that the first property of the quark-gluon plasma we would learn about from RHIC would be its shear viscosity, leave apart that the quark-gluon plasma would prove to be such an ideal liquid? The latter comes with no guarantees. Along the way, I will mention an insight that has come from calculations done using AdS/CFT dualities first developed by string theorists. [Preview Abstract] |
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