Dilepton Probes of High-energy Ion-ion Collisions

Abstract

Leptons are unique probes of physics processes that occur during the hadronic collisions at the high-energy accelerators and colliders operating in different laboratories around the Globe. Free of color charges, leptons ignore the environment where they have been produced, thus carrying the signals from different physics processes at various stages of the system evolution. 

The speaker will talk about the physics results implications of some ground-breaking measurements done with pairs of leptons in different experiments at SPS, RHIC, and LHC machines, about the not-so-well-known principle of the detectors and techniques used in these measurements, and tell about the new experiments planned to measure the dilepton signals that will become accessible in the near future.
 

About the Speaker

Prof. Alexander MILOV is a member of the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Physics Faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. After graduating from Novosibirsk State University in 1991 and working at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, he obtained his PhD from the Weizmann Institute in 2002. He completed a postdoc at Stony Brook University and was a Gertrude and Maurice Goldahaber Fellow at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Upon return to Israel, Prof. Milov continued his research as a member of PHENIX and later sPHENIX collaborations. In 2009 he joined the heavy ion program of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Prof. Milov takes a leading role in constructing the new NA60+ experiment at the SPS, CERN. His main scientific interest is in the search for the onset of the Quark-Gluon plasma in the interactions in small collision systems.

About the Program

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