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Project Overview | Project Code: NAT 10 |
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| Project name: | Open quantum system simulations of the low temperature regime for quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions |
| TUM Department: | NAT - Physics |
| TUM Chair / Institute: | Physics T30f - Professur für Theoretische Physik - Rechnergest. Feldtheorie Nukl. u. Hadron. Vielteilchensysteme |
| Research area: | Theoretical particle physics, QCD, heavy ion collision phenomenology |
| Student background: | Physics |
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Planned project location: | The offices of our chair in the physics department on the campus in Garching |
Project Supervisor - Contact Details | |
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| Title: | Professor |
| Given name: | Nora |
| Family name: | Brambilla |
| E-mail: | nora.brambilla@ph.tum.de |
| Phone: | +49 89 289 12353 |
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| Title: | Mr. |
| Given name: | Tom |
| Family name: | Magorsch |
| E-mail: | tom.magorsch@tum.de |
| Phone: | 015757285630 |
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Project Description | |
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| Project description: | A main probe of the Quark Gluon Plasma created in heavy ion collisions is the suppression of quarkonium. Heavy quark-antiquark bound states dissolve while traversing through the hot medium, leading to the number of measured quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions beeing smaller than in proton-proton collisions. In our group we work on the description of this phenomenon from first principles. In particular, the evolution of the quarkonium can be described using the open quantum system paradigm. It is possible to derive a master equation for the density matrix of the quarkonium from non-relativistic effective field theories. Previously, this master equation relied on an expansion in the binding energy over the temperature, making the application to low temperature scenarios challenging. By solving the master equation without the expansion in the inverse temperature, we enable new phenomenological applications. |
| Working hours per week planned: | 40 |
Prerequisites | |
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Required study level minimum (at time of TUM PREP project start): | 3 years of bachelor studies completed |
| Subject related: | Quantum mechanics, Particle physics, Quantum field theory |
| Other: | Programming in python and/or C++, basic shell usage |