Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Exploring the Universe's Highest Energy Densities at the LHC

Dragos Velicanu

MIT

This talk will discuss the behavior of proton proton, lead lead, and proton lead collisions with the CMS detector at the LHC at 7 TeV, 2.76 TeV, and 5 TeV center of mass energies respectively. Specifically, I will focus on the peculiar features of these systems that arise when going to the most extreme densities as seen through the eyes of two-particle correlations, and the comparisons we can draw between them.