concept of session in J2EE

In a JSP/Servlet application, what exactly constitutes a user session?
If I have an application open and I open a new browser window at one
of the pages in the app would this create 2 sessions or still one?
Basically, I was trying to find out if I need to synchronize access to
any session variables in servlet code or that is not necessary.

TIA
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