Speaker
Paul Sorensen
(Department of Energy and Brookhaven National Lab)
Description
Before the search for the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) commenced at RHIC, it was hoped that the QGP could be discovered through the observation of non-monotonic trends in a variety of observables. These smoking-gun signals were not observed in the data taken at higher beam energies, and the discovery of the perfect liquid QGP relied on careful comparisons between models and data. No non-monotonic trends were observed at RHIC, until data from a beam energy scan were collected and carefully analyzed. In this talk, I'll present and discuss data from several measurements that exhibit trends suggestive of interesting features in the phase diagram of QCD.
Primary author
Paul Sorensen
(Department of Energy and Brookhaven National Lab)
