Quantum Entanglement in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

• Grant number: 21/04438-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2021
• Effective date (End): August 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz
• Grantee: Eliana Paula Romero Marroquin
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/05642-0 - Quantum entanglement in heavy ion collisions: charged-particle multiplicity distributions in proton-lead collisions with ALICE (CERN), BE.EP.MS

Abstract

The study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a fundamental tool for understanding and investigating hadronic matter under extreme conditions of temperature and energy density, enabling the study of properties of Quantum Chromodynamics, such as the Confinement of quarks and gluons in hadrons. Recently, theoretical studies have proposed that confinement can be described by the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, establishing that the particle multiplicity measurements and the entanglement entropy are related. This project intends to test this hypothesis for proton-nucleus collisions in order to verify the predictions of the parton entanglement model.