Location: Cyclotron Building (434), Seminar Room
Dr. Derek Teaney
Understanding Dissipative Processes in the Quark Gluon
Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions
Abstract:
First, I will provide a theoretical overview of the most important experimental data from the RHIC collider. Then I will discuss hydrodynamic calculations and estimate how viscous corrections will modify the results of these computations. With an estimate of the typical transport time scale, I compute the transport properties of heavy quarks in the perturbative plasma and subsequently calculate heavy quark flow within a Langevin model. The results are compared to recent data from the RHIC collider. The transport coefficients in this computation can be tested with Lattice QCD calculations. Finally, I compute the transport coefficient of a heavy quark in strongly coupled N=4 Super Yang Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence and comment on the relevance to Heavy Ion Collisions.