Quantum Matter Seminar - Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Laboratory) - Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Lab) 1/27/20 Nuclear Physics seminar speaker
January 27, 2020
3:30PM - 4:30PM
4138 Physics Research Building @ 3:30pm

Date Range
2020-01-27 15:30:00 2020-01-27 16:30:00 Quantum Matter Seminar - Prithwish Tribedy (Brookhaven National Laboratory) - Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider The hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to be accompanied by an imbalance of axial charge leading to a difference in the number of right-handed and left-handed quarks. Such an imbalance leads to a separation of electric charges in the direction of the extremely strong (10^18 Gauss) magnetic field (B) produced by the protons in the colliding heavy ions. This phenomenon is known as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and finding a conclusive experimental signature of it has become one of the major scientific goals of the heavy-ion physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In this talk, I will give an overview of the recent experimental results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the context of the search for CME. 4138 Physics Research Building @ 3:30pm America/New_York public

The hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to be accompanied by an imbalance of axial charge leading to a difference in the number of right-handed and left-handed quarks. Such an imbalance leads to a separation of electric charges in the direction of the extremely strong (10^18 Gauss) magnetic field (B) produced by the protons in the colliding heavy ions. This phenomenon is known as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and finding a conclusive experimental signature of it has become one of the major scientific goals of the heavy-ion physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In this talk, I will give an overview of the recent experimental results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the context of the search for CME.