Speaker
Description
Relativistic ion collisions quickly form a droplet of quark–gluon plasma (QGP) with a remarkably small viscosity. This smallest and hottest fluid on earth can only be understood by studying a multitude of physical stages, including a far-from-equilibrium colliding stage, a stage described by viscous relativistic hydrodynamics and as a gas of hadrons that can finally be detected by experiments at RHIC and the LHC.
Linking these phases I will describe how a global Bayesian analysis can leverage a wide variety of such experimental data to gain knowledge about the QGPs intrinsic properties. I will then highlight some recent progress in our understanding of in particular the shapes of small and large ions. This includes the neutron skin of Pb-208, triaxiality of Xe-129 and (upcoming) light ion collisions of O-16 and possibly Ne-20 at RHIC and LHC.
