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Curso Avançado 1 - A modern description of dense matter, Veronica Dexheimer, Kent State University, EUA
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Curso Avançado 2 - Hot and Dense QCD, ministrado por Dr. Carlos A. Salgado, Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia-Spain)
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Curso Avançado 3 - Effective Field Theories, ministrado pela Dra. Laura Tolos, ICE-CSIC Institute of Space Science
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Curso Avançado 4 - First-principle and few-body methods in nuclear reactions, ministrado pela Dra. Chloe Hebborn, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), Michigan State University (MSU), EUA.
- Linking model approximations to ab initio QCD evaluations at finite densities, ministrado por Dr. Marcus Benghi Pinto (UFSC, Brazil)
- Short-range correlations effects in neutron stars admixed with dark matter, ministrado por Dr. Odilon Lourenço (ITA)
- Distribution and fragmentation functions of light and heavy mesons, Bruno El-Bennich, (Unifesp)
- Some current challenges in hadron physics, ministrado pela Dra. Kanchan Pradeepkumar Khemchandani, (Unifesp)
- Produção de quarks de sabor pesado como sondas para se entender o plasma de Quarks e Gluons, ministrado pela Dra. Cristiane Jahnke Fiorini da Silva (Unicamp)
- Exotic light nuclei beyond two neutron halos, ministrado por Dr. Tobias Frederico (ITA)
- Multiplicity Distributions at the LHC, ministrado por Dr. Fernando Silveira Navarra (USP)
- Hadronic structure at high energies: From HERA to EIC through LHC, Victor Gonçalves (UFPel)
- Probing the equation of state of dense matter in and out of beta equilibrium, Maurício Hippert (CBPF)
- Fundamentals of the three-body scattering for nuclear reactions, ministrado por: Dra. Jeannie Rangel (UERJ/Resende)
- Outreach : Jun Takahashi (UNICAMP)
CA01 - A modern description of dense matter, Veronica Dexheimer, Kent State University - USA
In a series of lectures, I start by reviewing our current understanding of the interior of neutron stars and modern constraints relevant for dense matter. This includes theoretical first-principle results from lattice and perturbative QCD, as well as chiral effective field theory results. From the experimental side, it includes heavy-ion collision and low-energy nuclear physics results, as well as observations from neutron stars and their mergers. I also discuss different models for dense matter and present the brand new MUSES cyberinfrastructure (https://musesframework.io /), a large collaboration project that is developing a new online platform with downloadable open source code and data that can be used to describe the entire
multidimensional QCD phase diagram and be used in simulations of particle collisions and neutron star evolution and mergers.
CA2 - Lectures 2 - Hot and Dense QCD, Carlos A. Salgado, Departamento de Física de Partículas and IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia-Spain)
The LHC nuclear program started a decade ago and the data have confirmed most of the trends observed in the previous program at RHIC. The strong elliptic flow points to a small viscosity of the produced medium; the large jet quenching points to a large density; quarkonia is suppressed and promises to be an excellent tool for temperature measurements; finally the partonic wave function of the nuclei is subject to strong screening effects which can be understood from saturated parton densities. The theoretical approaches checked in the last decades provide also a good understanding of these findings. At the same time, new experimental probes as reconstructed jets call for new theoretical developments. Particularly, proton-nucleus collisions are recognized as an essential part of the high-energy nuclear program to provide the benchmark for some effects not related with the presence of hot matter and provides interesting tools for small-x physics where high parton densities can be reached. In these lectures I present a small overview of the theoretical status of hot and dense QCD from the point of view of its application to the nuclear program at LHC and RHIC, focusing on some of the observables.
Curso avançado 3: Effective Field Theories, Dra. Laura Tolos, ICE-CSIC Institute of Space Science
Effective field theory (EFT) is a powerful tool for the description of the strong interactions at low energies. In general, an EFT is an approximation to a (more) fundamental theory, designed to be valid in a certain kinematical domain. Instead of solving the underlying theory, the processes under investigation are described in terms of a suitable set of effective degrees of freedom, dominating the phenomena in the particular energy region. In the context of the strong interactions, the underlying theory is quantum chromodynamics (QCD), whose fundamental degrees of freedom are quarks and gluons, confined in mesons and baryons at low energies. Moreover, the masses of the up and down quarks and, to a lesser extent, also of the strange quark are sufficiently small that the dynamics of QCD in the chiral limit (i.e., for massless quarks) is believed to resemble that of the “real” world. In this lecture we aim at providing a pedagogical introduction to the basic concepts of chiral effective theories, while also concentrating our effort in showing some possible applications in the meson and baryon sectors, and, in particular, incorporating the strange degree of freedom.
Curso avançado 4: First-principle and few-body methods in nuclear reactions, Dra. Chloe Hebborn, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), Michigan State University (MSU), EUA
In this course, I will discuss how nuclear reactions play a key role in astrophysical nucleosynthesis processes and how they are used to study the properties of unstable nuclei. I will motivate the need for accurate reaction theory in the context of the evaluation of nuclear reaction rates at energies relevant for astrophysics and the interpretation of experiments performed at radioactive-ion beams facilities. For reactions involving light nuclei and low energy, nuclear reactions can be predicted using first-principles method, treating all nucleons as active, while for more complex systems and higher energy, this description becomes intractable and the many-body problem is often simplified into a few-body one.
The class will include some introduction to nuclear reactions, to some basic knowledge on
non-relativistic scattering theory, to selected first-principle and few-body methods. It will also include connections to recent experiments.
