CPF Seminar with Anders Knospe

Abstract: Ultrarelativistic ion-ion collisions enable physicists to study the strong nuclear interaction at extreme temperatures. A wide variety of probes can be used to characterize the properties of the matter produced in such collisions. In this presentation, the speaker will discuss the many ways in which hadrons containing light (up, down, and strange) and heavy (charm and bottom) quarks can be used to examine the quark-gluon plasma and search for possible collective behavior small collision systems. The presentation will include a discussion of important recent results from RHIC and the LHC, as well as the prospects for exciting measurements from new experiments and future accelerator facilities.

Bio: Anders Knospe studied physics at Pomona College and Yale University. He worked at CERN as a postdoctoral scholar, first for the University of Texas at Austin and then for the University of Houston. He joined the faculty at Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics in fall 2020. Prof. Knospe has been a member of the STAR, ALICE, and sPHENIX collaborations, where he has used rare, short-lived, and heavy particles to probe the strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Some of his work is funded by the National Science Foundation and he is a recipient of a 2022 Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. He currently serves as the Chair of the RHIC/AGS Users' Executive Committee.