Time: 10:00-11:30  (Beijing time)

Thursday, 2025/05/08 (May 8)

Location: Teaching Room N401,

Teaching building, UCAS Zhong-Guan-Cun Campus

Speaker:  Xiaojian Du (Santiago de Compostela University, IGFAE)

Abstract:

Non-equilibrium systems and their thermalization are omnipresent. Quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a non-abelian plasma predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is of particular interest given that its equilibration occurs in nature only during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Relativistic heavy-ion collisions (HICs) are the only experiments that can produce this non-equilibrium QCD matter in the laboratory. We will discuss the thermalization of the QCD matter and its application in heavy-ion collisions. These include theoretical aspects of QCD turbulence and hydrodynamization, as well as phenomenological aspects of probing the thermalization in HICs with hard and electromagnetic probes.