Speaker
Prof.
Raimond Snellings
(NIKHEF, The Netherlands)
Description
One of the fundamental questions in the field of subatomic physics is what happens to matter when densities and temperatures are reached which prevailed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang. At these temperatures and densities, matter is predicted to be in a novel state where new degrees of freedom propagate over large distances. This novel deconfined state of matter is called a quark gluon plasma (QGP). I will review our understanding of this novel state of matter.
