Speaker
Description
QCD, our nearly perfect theory of the strong interaction, is also
deeply profound because all phenomena are emergent features of the many-body
dynamics of the
quark and gluon fields and the vacuum of the theory. This talk on many-body
QCD is organized as a play in four acts:
i) Origins, mysteries, symmetries
ii) The power and the glory of QCD
iii) Surprises from boiling the QCD vacuum in heavy-ion collisions:
a) why the world's hottest fluid, albeit also being its most viscous,
flows with almost no resistance
b) a possible unexpected universality between the hottest and coldest
fluids on earth
c) What magnetar strength magnetic fields created in heavy-ion
collisions may reveal about the topology of the QCD vacuum
iv) Looking ahead to the Electron-Ion Collider: what the ultimate IMAX
experience may reveal of QCD's mysteries
