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    The document discusses lattice gauge theory and its application to modeling the quark-gluon plasma. It describes how lattice gauge theory uses numerical simulations on a lattice to study quantum chromodynamics and predict the properties of different phases of quark matter, including the quark-gluon plasma produced in high-energy nuclear collisions. The document outlines various probes and flow parameters that can be used to characterize the quark-gluon plasma and determine if it behaves as a liquid.

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    Lattice Gauge Theory for the

    Quark-Gluon Plasma
    Sourendu Gupta
    TIFR
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 2
    Can particle physics predict
    the mass of this system?
    Protein folding and
    other entropic terms:
    about 1 eV
    Binding energy of
    electrons: 1 keV
    Electron rest mass:
    1 MeV
    Proton mass: 1 GeV
    3-6 digit accuracy!
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 3
    The first 3 digits
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 4
    Particles in the Standard
    Model (1990s)
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 5
    The Eightfold Way (variables)
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 6
    The Eightfold Way (variables)
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 7
    The Eightfold Way (variables)
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 8
    The Eightfold Way (variables)
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 9
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 10
    The basics of extreme matter
    Normal matter made of baryons
    Baryons contain 3 quarks and interact
    by exchanging mesons
    Mesons contain 2 quarks
    When you squeeze this matter by
    applying pressure (or heating it up) you
    get matter with large numbers of quarks
    This is the quark gluon plasma
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 11
    Quark matter factories
    Create an universe through a big bang
    and let it cool
    Create a supernova and let its core
    collapse into a really compressed star
    Bang some (relatively) large chunks of
    matter together very hard
    Think hard you may get a patent
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 12
    The RHIC at Brookhaven

    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 13
    Chronology of heavy-ion
    collisions
    Initial 1 fm or so:
    nuclei collide and
    many particles are
    created
    Next 7 fm or so:
    secondary collisions
    and flow?
    Later: particles free
    stream to detector
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 14
    On quark matter
    Normal matter needs
    QED or its effective
    theories
    There are many phases
    of normal matter
    Normal matter may be
    neutral or a plasma
    Normal matter may be a
    solid, liquid or a gas


    Quark matter needs
    QCD or its effective
    theories
    There are many
    phases of quark matter
    Quark matter may be
    neutral or a plasma
    Quark matter is fluid:
    either gas or liquid
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 15
    How to pro(b/v)e a liquid
    Show that there is some matter
    count the number of particles coming out of
    the collision and compute density
    Show that this generates pressure
    elliptic flow: also used in the BEC
    Does the pressure drive flow?
    detailed analysis of velocities
    Is there transport: energy, baryon etc?
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 16
    How to predict its properties
    Need to use quantum field theory
    Equation for fields due to Maxwell
    Equation for matter due to Dirac
    first found by Lorentz (self interaction of point
    particle)
    in the quantum theory: Heisenberg, Bethe
    Removed by Feynman, Schwinger, Tomonaga
    Modern formulation by Wilson: unifying field
    theory and statistical mechanics
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 17
    The bubbling vacuum
    Quantum fluctuations: t h/2
    Particles can be produced from vacuum for a
    short time and disappear again (if no one
    is looking)
    Mobile charges the vacuum screens
    No one measures the charge of an electron
    without the screening cloud: it is actually
    and cancels Lorentzs
    This affects the mass: gauge symmetry
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 18
    Charge renormalization:
    screening in QED
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 19
    Anti-screening in QCD
    Asymptotic freedom is anti-screening: the
    opposite of electrodynamics
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 20
    Numerical renormalization
    Solve coupled differential
    equations: Maxwell + Dirac
    Do it many times: quantum
    theory is a sum over
    possibilities (Feynman)
    Do it on a lattice (spacing
    d): no infinities in solid state
    physics
    e changes with d
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 21
    The phase diagram
    Several phases
    Several 1st order
    transitions
    More than one
    critical point
    More variables not
    shown: tri-critical
    points
    R a j a r s h i R a y
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 22
    Flow parameters
    P(T) or P(T,):
    relativistic gas
    Equation of state is
    either E(P) or E(P,N)
    Speed of sound
    Specific heat
    Compressibility
    Viscosity
    Swagato Mukherjee
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 23
    Lots more to do
    Analogues of Debye screening for pions,
    strange and charmed particles, causing them
    to dissolve
    Photon emission rates: is the plasma a black
    body? Are there plasmons?
    Supersonic shock waves: jets of particles
    travel with speed of light through the plasma
    Quantum coherence created as particles
    freeze out of the liquid
    Anything else that you can think of
    Sep 1, 2007 Saturday Show: S. Gupta 24
    Its totally rewarding

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