Canterbury Tales of Hot QFTs in the LHC Era

"Canterbury Tales of Hot QFTs in the LHC Era"

10 - 14 July 2017, Canterbury Quad, St. John's College, Oxford University

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Experiments at LHC are shaping our understanding of Nature at the high-energy frontier. One of the most surprising results arising from these studies is the phenomenon of strong collectivity observed in hadronic collisions at extreme high energy. Theoretical understanding of this and other phenomena observed in hot and dense nuclear matter requires a coherent synthesis of old and new approaches to quantum field theories at finite temperature and density, in- and out-of-equilibrium, combining perturbative and non-perturbative methods including lattice gauge theory and holography.

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The purpose of this workshop is to bring together experts in relevant areas to discuss the current status and future prospects in our understanding of this complicated dynamics.

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The workshop aims to cover the following topics:

• Thermodynamics of QFTs at finite temperature and density

• The phase diagram of QCD

• Equilibration mechanisms in QFTs

• Hydrodynamics as an effective description of non-equilibrium systems

• Lattice QFT approaches to non-equilibrium phenomena

• Experimental signatures of far-from-equilibrium dynamics

We expect the workshop to be a series of pedagogical one hour-long review talks on the present-day state of the art in each of the topics, followed by 30 min of questions and discussion.

Organizing Committee:

Jorge Casalderrey Solana (Oxford University)

Andrei Starinets (Oxford University)

Theoretical Physics Administration Officer:

Michelle Bosher

Funding provided by:

St John's College Research Committee

The Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (ERC Grant agreement 307955)