许怒 教授

美国劳伦斯国家实验室高级研究员

黄性涛教授、徐庆华教授

2015-12-03 15:30

知新楼C702 量子报告厅

High-energy nuclear collisions provide us a unique tool to study the QCD phase diagram in the laboratory. At both RHIC (Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV) and LHC (Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV), a new form of matter, the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) has been discovered. At these ultra-relativistic energies the net-baryon density is approaching to zero and transition from the sQGP to hadron gas is a smooth crossover. On the other hand, new questions are raised: What is the QCD phase structure at finite net-baryon density? Where is the QCD critical point? In this talk I will first review what we have learned in RHIC beam energy scan program (BES-I). Then I will discuss the opportunities in the future bean energy scan program in order to address key questions regarding the QCD phase structure including the illusive critical point.

许怒，1982年毕业于中国科学技术大学物理系，1991年在美国纽约大学石溪分校获博士学位，后到美国 Los Alamos国家实验室做博士后，1997年到美国劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室工作。长期从事高能核核碰撞实验、夸克—胶子等离子体物理的研究。现为美国Brookhaven国家实验室相对论重离子对撞机（RHIC）上STAR国际合作组主要成员，2008－2014年曾担任STAR合作组发言人。2009年当选为美国物理学会会士(APS Fellow)。现任华中师范大学物理科学技术学院院长、劳伦斯国家实验室高级研究员。