Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session X9: Baryon Resonanaces and the Evolution of the Early UniverseInvited
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: Phil Cole, Idaho State University Room: 250A |
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
X9.00001: QCD thermodynamics and missing hadron states Invited Speaker: Peter Petreczky Equation of State and fluctuations of conserved charges in hot strongly interacting matter are being calculated with increasing accuracy in lattice QCD, and continuum results at physical quark masses become available. At sufficiently low temperature the thermodynamic quantities can be understood in terms of hadron resonance gas model that includes known hadrons and hadronic resonances from Particle Data Book. However, for some quantities it is necessary to include undiscovered hadronic resonances (missing states) that are, however, predicted by quark model and lattice QCD study of hadron spectrum. Thus, QCD thermodynamics can provide indications for the existence of yet undiscovered hadron states. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
X9.00002: The quest for missing baryon states in electromagnetic interactions Invited Speaker: Volker Burkert The excitation spectrum of nucleons reveals properties of the quark and gluon interactions in a confined system. Knowledge of the nucleon excitations is central to our understanding of the basic interactions underlying the spectrum, and is a fundamental goal of experimental nuclear and hadronic physics. Accounting for the complete baryon spectrum has recently been shown as critical for modeling the transition from the quark-gluon plasma phase to the confinement phase of stable nucleons in the early universe. Microscopic approaches such as constituent quark models and more recently Lattice QCD make predictions regarding masses and quantum numbers of the excited states and their internal structure according to radial, spin, and orbital transitions of the quark-gluon system. Pion induced transitions have revealed many nucleon states consistent with these predictions, but most of the predicted states have not been observed, especially those in the higher mass range. The quest for a more complete understanding of the systematic and the internal structure of baryons has led to a worldwide experimental effort to measure electromagnetically induced meson production including many polarization observables. The CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab is playing a key role in measuring many of the key observables with unprecedented precision, and some of these data have been employed in coupled-channel resonance analyses that led to strong evidence for a number of excited states that were previously unobserved or lacked sufficient evidence. In this talk I will discuss the current status of and future directions in the search for new baryon states using electromagnetic probes. [Preview Abstract] |
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
X9.00003: Results from the RHIC energy scan and prospects for the future Invited Speaker: Daniel Cebra Collisions between relativistic heavy-ions are energetic enough to vaporize the participating neutrons and protons creating an equilibrated plasma of quarks and gluons which is understood to be similar to the state of the universe about one microsecond after the big bang. This deconfined, partonic phase has been well established an the top energies available at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Although progress has been made in understanding the nature of hot dense QCD matter, there are still important open questions about how the matter undergoes the transition between a quark-gluon plasma and a hot hadronic gas. If the plasma has an equal mix of quarks and anti-quarks, lattice QCD calculations now tell us that there will be a crossover transition. However, in heavy-ion collisions, systems are created with an excess of quarks. The degree of the quark excess (measured as baryon chemical potential) is determined by the collision energy. Under high baryon chemical potential conditions, we expect a first order phase transition. The termination of the first order phase transition boundary will be a critical point. RHIC has performed a scan of several beam energies in order to map the QCD matter phase diagram as a function of baryon chemical potential. Features of the phase diagram and becoming evident, however more data are needed to clarify the picture. Upgrades to both the collider and the detectors are being undertaken. These will allow a more focused and refined follow-up energy scan in 2019 and 2020. [Preview Abstract] |
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