Report on INT Program 14-3. Heavy Flavor and Electromagnetic Probes
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino (Italy)
The Institute for Nuclear Theory program, Heavy Flavor and Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions (INT 14-3), was held 15 September to 10 October 2014. In addition to the four organizers: Ramona Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis), Peter Petreczky (BNL), Anthony Frawley (Florida State), and Enrico Scomparin (INFN Torino), the program was attended by 34 other participants spread out over the four week period. Almost all participants were recognized experts in the field and were invited to take part. Eight of the participants were postdocs and five were women. There are two main thrusts to the study of heavy quarks and quarkonia in heavy-ion physics: “hot matter” (effects specific to the high temperature medium produced in heavy-ion or nucleus-nucleus collisions) and “cold nuclear matter” (effects that are present already in proton-nucleus collisions and are a baseline against which hot matter effects must be compared) as well as production of the heavy quarks and quarkonium (bound states of heavy quark-antiquark pairs) in perturbative QCD. Unfortunately, due to last minute cancellations the topic of electromagnetic probes was underrep- resented. While some of these involved unforeseen personal issues, others were related to the QCD town meeting that coincided with the first week of the program and to the beginning of classes at some universities. The program was structured so that the first two weeks were generally devoted to hot matter, especially lattice QCD. The second half was devoted to issues related to production and cold matter effects. An intense 2.5 day workshop, from 29 September to 1 October, with participants from both areas, bridged the two halves of the program. Aside from the workshop days, the program consisted of one to two talks of at least an hour in the morn- ing with time in the afternoon available for work, group discussion, and/or smaller collaborative discussions. Although a theory program, experimentalists attended throughout, giving talks on recent data and future facilities.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1178400
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-TR-663795
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Heavy Flavor and Electromagnetic Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions (INT 14-3), Seattle, WA (United States), 15 Sep-10 Oct 2014
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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