Hadron spectroscopy at finite temperatures
Chris Allton (Swansea University)

Although the strong interaction of particle physics normally confines quarks inside hadrons (with a force equivalent to 15 tonnes of weight!), at very high temperatures the interaction changes nature and quarks become essentially free. These conditions existed for the first few microseconds after the Big Bang and can be recreated in heavy-ion collision experiments. Studying these conditions is problematic for both experimentalists and theorists. This talk discusses the lattice approach to simulating quarks and hadrons at these temperatures using Bayesian and other approaches.