Speaker
Jean-François Paquet
(Duke University)
Description
Colliding large nuclei at velocities close to the speed of light can produce a plasma of strongly interacting nuclear matter known as quark-gluon plasma. This nuclear plasma can be caracterised by macroscopic properties such as its equation of state and transport coefficients. These properties can be constrained by systematic comparison with the large number of available measurements from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider. In this presentation, I review the status of Bayesian constraints on the shear and the bulk viscosities of the quark-gluon plasma. I discuss the strengths of Bayesian parameter estimation as well as common misconceptions.
Primary author
Jean-François Paquet
(Duke University)
