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<div><font color="#000080"><b>Old Dominion University</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080"><b>Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#E36C0A"><b>Spring Colloquium Series</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#17365D" size="5"><b>Tuesday January 25, 2011</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#E36C0A" size="5"><b>"Evidence for Deconfined Nuclear Matter from High Energy Collisions of Heavy Nuclei"</b></font></div>
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<font color="#1F497D" size="5"><b>Dr. Glenn Young</b></font></font></div>
<div><font color="#1F497D" size="5"><b>Jefferson Lab</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">A long-standing conjecture that quarks can be de-confined from their parent nucleons, given a system that is sufficiently energy-dense, has been the subject of intensive study over the past decade using the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. RHIC can collide nuclei as heavy as gold with kinetic energies one hundred times their rest mass, leading to unusual final states in which several thousand particles are produced together. The
evidence from high-energy particle emission and relative emission patterns of the particles does suggest a very dense medium with an extraordinarily large stopping power is created, The medium is surprisingly dense, with a density over 20 times that of the
center of a nucleus, behaves in some respects like a fluid, yet has a shear vicosity to entropy ratio lower than any other known substance, approaching the conjectured quantum lower bound.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Presentation: Physical Sciences Building II 1100 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Refreshments: 1st Floor Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">More details at <a href="http://www.physics.odu.edu">
http://www.physics.odu.edu</a></font></div>
<div><font size="4">All are Welcome<font size="3">!</font></font></div>
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