IFCPAR AR (ENGLISH) for CD - CEFIPRA

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Pure and Applied Physics
Prof. Rajeev S. Bhalerao
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Mumbai
Dr Jean-Yves Ollitrault
Institut de Physique Theorique
Saclay
Project 4404-2
EXTREME QCD IN THE LHC ERA
IFCPAR
Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research
Duration: Three years (January, 2011 to December, 2013)
Objectives
The LHC collider at CERN will accelerate beams of lead nuclei
in 2010, at energies 30 times larger than the present collider
RHIC at Brookhaven. These collisions are expected to produce
a phase of matter named the quark-gluon plasma. This project
is devoted to theoretical studies in close relation with this
experimental programme. The first aspect of the project is to
compute the production of particles in these collisions from first
principles, using recent developments in perturbative
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The second aspect is to
study specific signatures of the quark-gluon plasma using
QCD at finite temperature, namely the production of
charmonium, and of particles with high transverse momenta.
The third aspect of the project investigates the expansion of the
quark-gluon plasma and its decay into particles using
relativistic hydrodynamics.
Accomplishments
i) The project started at the beginning of 2011
ii) One paper was submitted and this work was selected for
oral presentation at the conference "Quark Matter 2011"
iii) One paper is under preparation
Research papers published: Nil