Hadron Ion Tea (HIT) Seminar Series
[formerly the Heavy Ion Tea Seminars]
Nuclear Science Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
HIT seminars are on Tuesdays at 3:30pm Pacific Time (unless otherwise noted)
Organizers: Jennifer Rittenhouse West, Shujie Li, Farid Salazar & Nu Xu
Previous seminars can be viewed on our HIT Youtube Channel
Upcoming seminars
Welcome to our Hadron-Ion Tea Seminar Series in 2023! All talks are 100% virtual except for local speakers (in-person & zoom) - we hope you join us!
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 3:30 PM PST (zoom)
Dr. Sylvester Joosten (ANL)
Host: Shujie Li
TBD
Coming soon!
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 3:30 PM PST (zoom)
Dr. Chiara Bissolotti (ANL)
Host: Jennifer Rittenhouse West
TBA
Coming soon!
TBD
Dr. Julie Roche (Ohio University)
Host: Shujie Li
The upcoming GPD measurements with the neutral particle spectrometer at JLab
Coming soon!
Thursday, December 7th, 2023 3:30 PM PST (in-person & zoom)
Dr. Gang Wang (UCLA)
Host: Nu Xu
"Review of the Experimental Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Heavy-ion Collisions"
The quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to exhibit a spontaneous electric-charge separation in the direction of a strong magnetic field through the chiral magnetic effect (CME). The experimental confirmation of the CME in heavy-ion collisions will uncover fundamental aspects of strong interaction physics such as the QCD chiral symmetry restoration and the topological configurations of non-Abelian gauge fields. Over the past two decades, experiments at RHIC and the LHC have performed a series of charge-separation measurements in A+A collisions at various beam energies from the center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV down to 7.7 GeV, and in different collision systems including p+Au, p+Pb, d+Au, Cu+Cu, Au+Au, Pb+Pb and U+U collisions, as well as the recent isobaric Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions. Multiple analysis methods have also been developed to manifest the charge separation effect and suppress the flow related background. In this talk, I will review the aforementioned results, summarize our current understanding, and provide an outlook on future analyses.
TBD Fall 2023
Dr. Holly Szumila-Vance (Jefferson Lab)
Host: Shujie Li
"The Search for Color Transparency"
Coming soon!