NPA Seminar: Anders Knospe, Lehigh University, “From Light to Heavy Flavor: Using Hadrons as Probes of Ion-Ion Collisions”

Ultrarelativistic ion-ion collisions enable physicists to study the strong nuclear interaction at extreme temperatures. A wide variety of probes can be used to characterize the properties of the matter produced in such collisions. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss the many ways in which hadrons containing light (up, down, and strange) and heavy (charm and bottom) quarks can be used to examine the quark-gluon plasma and search for possible collective behavior small collision systems. The presentation will include a discussion of important recent results from RHIC and the LHC, as well as the prospects for exciting measurements from new experiments and future accelerator facilities.