Speaker
Milan Stojanovic
(Wayne State University)
Description
In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, quarks and gluons become deconfined from hadrons, forming a state of strongly interacting QCD matter known as the quark–gluon plasma (QGP). Recent measurements of the speed of sound in QGP, derived from the multiplicity dependence of mean transverse momentum at fixed volume, offer a direct constraint on its equation of state. This talk will present an overview of these measurements, compare them with theoretical predictions, and discuss their consistency across different experiments, as well as the robustness and limitations of the extraction methods.
Primary author
Milan Stojanovic
(Wayne State University)
