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The Compass Lectures — Recreating the Big Bang 50,000 times a second: the LHC heavy ion program

The Compass Lectures, Spring 2025 Lecture 7: Recreating the Big Bang 50,000 times a second: the LHC heavy ion program Speaker: Tucker Hwang, Graduate Student in Physics Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 Talk Description: For about one and a half months every year, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland smashes heavy lead nuclei together in collisions over 100,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun. These collisions produce droplets of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter that existed in the first microseconds of the Universe following the Big Bang. Learning about this exotic material has deepened our understanding of the strong interaction that binds 99% of ordinary matter, but has revealed just as many new questions than it has answered. This lecture will be a crash course of everything we've learned and everything we hope to learn from the LHC heavy ion program, from the micro- and macroscopic properties of the QGP and the strong interaction to neutron stars and new particles beyond the Standard Model. Speaker Bio: Tucker is a second-year graduate student in the Berkeley physics department, working on heavy-ion physics at the Large Hadron Collider. Originally from Virginia, he attended Cornell for undergrad where he received a BA in Physics and Linguistics, and worked on the Muon g-2 experiment. In his free time, he likes to read books, occasionally ice skate, and cross-stitch. ==================================================== The Compass Lecture Series is a collection of research talks given by UC Berkeley Math and Physical Sciences (MPS) faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates. These talks are unique among UC Berkeley MPS lectures in that they are designed for an undergraduate audience. The goal of the lecture series is to introduce undergrads to as many areas of research as possible using language and concepts they can understand without having advanced prior knowledge of any particular field. The Spring 2025 lectures took place in a hybrid format on Fridays at 3:10 PM in 375 Physics North, UC Berkeley and via Zoom. ==================================================== Visit our website: https://compass.studentorg.berkeley.edu