Workshop On

P- and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter (2012)

Event Registration (Deadline: June 1, 2012)
Additional Guest Registration (Deadline: June 1, 2012)

Very limited funds are available; if you require financial assistance, please contact Jinfeng Liao immediately at liaoji@indiana.edu to inquire.

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Motivation

This is the second RBRC workshop on the topic of “P- and CP-odd Effects in Hot and Dense Matter”. The first was held in April 2010 and was successful in initiating a fruitful discussion of topological effects (such as Chern-Simons number generation) in hot and dense QCD matter, as well as the implications for cosmology and condensed matter physics. A number of significant theoretical and experimental developments, in part prompted by that workshop, have occurred since 2010.

They include: the formulation of relativistic hydrodynamics taking into account quantum anomalies; understanding of the hydrodynamical chiral modes related to the anomaly; holographic computations of the chiral magnetic effect; and, on the experimental side, the refinement of the previous measurements of charge asymmetry fluctuations at RHIC and the first measurements from the beam energy scan at RHIC and at the LHC. The time is ripe to critically review the most recent progresses of the theory, the experiment and the unsolved questions, to formulate new research directions, and to discuss the predictions and plans for the future heavy ion programs at RHIC as well as at the LHC, FAIR and NICA.

Specific topics to be discussed include:

• the latest experimental results on charge asymmetries from RHIC and LHC;
• new theoretical ideas and quantitative characterization of topological effects in QCD matter, including both analytical and numerical (lattice) calculations;
• topological effects in cosmology of the Early Universe (including in particular the mechanism of magnetic helicity generation) as well as in condensed matter physics (e.g. graphene, topological insulators, and superfluids);
• new directions for the future experimental studies of P- and CP-odd effects at RHIC, LHC and elsewhere.

Organizing Committee

• Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook/BNL)
• Jinfeng Liao (IU/RBRC)
• Edward Shuryak (Stony Brook)
• Ho-Ung Yee (Stony Brook)

International Advisory Committee

• H. En'yo (RIKEN)
• K. Fukushima (Keio University)
• F. Karsch (BNL & Bielefeld)
• A. Nakamura (Hiroshima University)
• M. Polikarpov (ITEP)
• K. Rajagopal (MIT)
• A. Rebhan (TU Wien)
• V. Rubakov (INR)
• J. Sandweiss (Yale University)
• A. Vilenkin (Tufts)
• S. Voloshin (Wayne State)
• H. Warringa (FIAS)
• N. Xu (LBNL & CCNU)

Presentations

Presentations will be mainly by invitation. We expect to be able to accommodate a limited number of contributed talks. If you are interested in presenting a contributed talk, please contact one of the organizers.

Special Evening Event

Registered attendees are invited to attend the optional banquet dinner after the Workshop on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm, Brookhaven Center South Room; free of charge for registered participants.

Last Modified: May 23, 2012