The Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is a state of matter that existed in nature very shortly after the Big Bang and has a temperature of several trillion degrees. In order to recreate and study this matter in the laboratory, Professor Sickles’ group used particle accelerators and specially designed detectors. In this talk, she will discuss what we know about the QGP based on measurements at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She will also discuss her work on sPHENIX, the new detector which came online this year and will provide new information on how the QGP properties change with temperature.
