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Seminar of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of University of Wrocław

I can't believe it's fluid! -⁠ when fluid dynamics describes systems the size of atomic nuclei

dr Pasi Huovinen

UWr

We know fluid dynamics as a powerful description of the behaviour of macroscopic amounts of liquids and gases, but it turns out that fluid dynamics can describe even a droplet of fluid of the size of atomic nuclei -⁠ if the droplet of fluid consists of free quarks and gluons. In this talk I will review what such a state of free quarks and gluons, called quark-⁠gluon plasma, is, how it is created in heavy-⁠ion collision experiments, and how we use fluid dynamics to describe the evolution and properties of this plasma.