Speaker
Ron Belmont
(University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Description
Collisions of heavy nuclei at relativistic energies create the quark-gluon plasma, the phase of matter that existed in the first few microseconds after the big bang. One of the major pillars of heavy-ion physics today is the study of so-called small systems, consisting of collisions of a light nucleus on a heavy nucleus or even of two light nuclei. In this talk we will give a short overview of a variety of results on small systems from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab.
Primary author
Ron Belmont
(University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
