Benjamin Jäger: The strong force under extreme conditions
Abstract
The strong force is one of the four fundamental forces in nature and, as the name suggests, is the strongest of all four interactions and responsible for more than 99% of the mass surrounding us. Shortly after the big bang, the universe was in a very hot and dense state, which cooled down due to its rapid expansion. As a consequence, the whole universe cooled down from a Quark-Gluon Plasma (where quarks and gluons are quasi-free) to the Hadronic phase (where quarks are bound into protons and neutrons). Understanding this transition will help us understand the early time of the universe. It further guides and complements the extensive search in heavy-ion collision experiments all over the world.
ABOUT BENJAMIN JÄGER
Benjamin Jäger graduated with magna cum laude in 2010 from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the thesis “Lattice determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to (g – 2)”. Afterwards he was a Research -assistant at Helmholtz Institute Mainz with a PhD Scholarship until he graduated summa cum laude in 2013 with the thesis “Hadronic Matrix Elements in Lattice QCD”.
From 2013 to 2016 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Swansea University and had the same title at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich from 2016 to 2017.
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