Recombination of quarks

Who:  Rainer Fries - (University of Minnesota)
Where:  PRB North Mezzanine, M2061A
When:  Monday, March 7, 2005 at 01:30
Type:  Nuclear Seminar

Description: Quark recombination is a very successful phenomenological model to understand hadron production from a deconfined quark and gluon phase in high energy nuclear collisions. In this talk I review our current understanding of quark recombination and how it might help to make the case for the quark gluon plasma at RHIC. I will also discuss some novel directions: recombination beyond the valence quark approximation and jet-like correlations of hadrons.