On Monday (09.05.22) at 12.00 c.t. the next date of our physics colloquium will take place.
The speaker will be private lecturer Dr Johan Messchendorp (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research,Darmstadt) on the topic:
"Probing strongly interacting matter: from pioneering to precision experiments".
Despite the successes of the Standard Model of particle physics, it remains a challenge to understand the dynamics of the strong interaction among the building blocks of hadronic matter, namely quarks and gluons. At small distance scales or at high energies, the underlying theory, the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), is well tested and understood. Our understanding of the strong interaction deteriorates dramatically at larger distance scales comparable to the size of the nucleon. This so-called "strong QCD regime" is governed by spectacular effects such as the generation of hadron masses and colour confinement. Various experimental and theoretical efforts are ongoing to rigorously study the interactions of hadrons, and to unravel their internal structure. In this presentation, I will highlight the present state of the art.-of-the-art in this field, elaborate on the challenges in technology and interpretation, and give the perspectives of planned activities that will take place on the various time scales. In particular, the experimental activities in the field of hadron spectroscopy exploiting strange and charm degrees-of-freedom at FAIR will be reviewed with an eye on the challenges and intellectual opportunities that may rise for the next generation of experiments.
Excerpt from Dr Messchendorp's lecture
The introduction will be given by Prof. Dr. Ilya Eremin.
The faculty cordially invites all interested parties. The event will take place in lecture hall HNB and hybrid via Zoom.
This link will take you to the Zoom event.