High-energy heavy ion collisions – meetings of physicists at the UWr
On 24-25 September, the Institute of Theoretical Physics will host a meeting of the Polish experimental groups on the physics of high-energy heavy ion collisions, and then, on 26-30 September, there is a working meeting of the research collaboration of the NA61/SHINE experiment, whose participants include physicists from the Institute of Theoretical Physics and the Institute of Experimental Physics of our University. The main objective of these experiments is to study the properties of dense and hot hadronic matter, such as that found inside neutron stars – the smallest but also most compressed stellar objects, which also appeared in the first moments of the Big Bang that created our Universe.
These experiments, with the participation of Polish scientific groups, are conducted at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) accelerators located at CERN, and the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) accelerator/collider from Brokhaven National Laboratory (USA). The HADES (High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer) experiment conducted at the GSI (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) in Darmstadt should also be mentioned here.
In addition to the team from our university, groups from Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University, University of Silesia, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Stanisław Staszic University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Warsaw University of Technology, the National Centre for Nuclear Research and the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences will participate in the meeting.
