Femtoscopy Research Group

RESEARCH TOPIC

Our Universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old. It is filled by galaxies and clusters of galaxies. However, it didn't always look like that. The first stars and galaxies formed several millions of years after the birth of our Universe, the Big Bang. The matter in the Universe started to look like today's normal matter only after a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. Going back even further, to the first microseconds, we imagine a new type of matter filling the Universe, where the degrees of freedom are carried by quarks, the building blocks of protons and neutrons (which in turn build up atomic nuclei today). The CERN LHC and SPS, the new GSI FAIR, as well as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory recreates and investigates this new type of matter, by colliding nuclei (heavy ions) at relativistic speeds (very close to the speed of light). In these accelerators, several experimental facilities have been designed and built - their detectors having different capabilities and focuses, so that we can answer the widest possible range of questions. Our group here at the Eötvös University is member of several of these large experiments: CBM, CMS, NA61/SHINE, PHENIX, and STAR. Mate Csanad, professor at the Eötvös University, is the leader of the PHENIX-Hungary and STAR-Hungary groups, as well as the CBM-ELTE and NA61-ELTE groups. Our goal in all these experiments is the investigate the phases of the matter created in relativistic heavy ion collisions, with experimental and phenomenological methods. Our tasks and projects range from measuring femtoscopic correlations through detector development/operations and data taking to shift coordination.

MEMBERS

FORMER MEMBERS

	Sneha Bhosale postdoctoral fellow
	Soma Gardonyi MSc student
	Gabor Kasza PhD student ELTE webpage
	Balazs Korodi MSc student
	Nora Kristin MSc student
	Sandor Lokos external associate ELTE webpage
	Ayon Mukherjee external associate
	Aletta Purzsa MSc student
	Mark Tarnai MSc student
	Srikanta Tripathy postdoctoral fellow
	Karoly Urmossy postdoctoral fellow

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