Dr. Kenneth Read is a research scientist in the Physics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Tennessee. His research interests include novel gluon dynamics observed in ultraperipheral collisions of heavy nuclei, and gluon dynamics at extremes of energy and density. He is a Team Leader for physics research conducted at the ALICE Experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate for Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1987. He received his B.S. with distinction and honors in physics from Stanford University in 1981.
Presentation Title:
Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Interference at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
Presentation Abstract:
Quantum entanglement and quantum interference are increasingly important topics of research across multiple domains of physics, including high energy physics and high energy nuclear physics. Quantum entanglement has recently been detected at the highest laboratory energy ever (13 TeV) for the first time in a system of fundamental quarks (top-antitop quark pairs) by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Â Entanglement-enabled quantum interference has recently been detected by the ALICE Experiment for vector mesons produced in symmetric ultraperipheral collisions of identical heavy ions. This represents performing the double-slit experiment at the femtometer scale for relativistic particles.