QCD Summer School - May-June 2019
As part of the training and dissemination plan of the HIEIC project, we organized a graduate level school in high-energy QCD at University of Connecticut between May 27 and June 6 in 2019. On the one hand, this graduate level school served as a kick-off meeting of the HIEIC project and, on the other, it provided an opportunity to advertise the HIEIC collaboration.
The graduate school attracted 19 early stage researchers (ESRs), most of which were PhD students, from high-quality research institutes and universities both from USA and Europe. The USA partner of the HIEIC project, Prof. Alex Kovner, organized a wide range of lecture topics which aimed at introducing the ESRs to the fundamentals of the main theoretical and experimental challenges in high-energy QCD.
The Spanish team leader Prof. Nestor Armesto (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), gave a set of lectures focused on hadronic structures in electron/hadron/nucleus colliders. The Polish team leader dr Tolga Altinoluk (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland) discussed the relation between gluon Transverse Momentum Distribution (TMD) functions and the high energy proton-nucleus scattering processes in his lectures. Apart from the two HIEIC partners (Prof. Armesto and dr Altinoluk), world known experts of the high-energy QCD provided lectures on a very wide range of topics. Dr Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) discussed the formation of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions, Prof. Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State University, USA) discussed the concept of spin in low-x physics, dr Robert Pisarski (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) discussed finite temperature field theory and QCD phase diagram, Prof. Wojciech Broniowski (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) discussed hydrodynamics in phenomenology of heavy ion and proton-ion collisions, dr Urs Wiedemann (CERN, Switzerland) discussed the collectivity phenomena in small and large systems and dr Guilherme Milhano (CERN, Switzerland and LIP, Portugal) discussed jet formation and jet quenching in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions.
Among the ESRs of the HIEIC project, Pedro Agostini (Spanish team) and dr Karthik Inbasekar (Israeli team) attended to the school and benefitted from the various lectures. This Was an important part of the training plans of HIEIC project.
