Topics of PhD Thesis

Studying of nuclear matter under extreme conditions, in particular its state called Quark-Gluon-Plasma – a very hot and dense mixture of quarks and gluons. The state which the primordial matter of the Universe passed through during the first instants of the Big Bang. When the Universe was about 10 microseconds old, the Quark-Gluon-Plasma “froze out” to form the elementary particles. Experiments WA98 and ALICE at CERN aim at recreating in the laboratory via “Little Big Bangs” the Quark-Gluon-Plasma in collisions between heavy nuclei at very high energies. The WA98 detector has recorded and the ALICE will record particles from events that unfold from each “Big Little Bang” in order to observe how Quark-Gluon-Plasma gave birth to the ordinary forms of matter filling todays Universe.

The successful candidates will be involved in the analysis of the data from WA98 CERN experiment, for details see:
http://wa98.web.cern.ch/WA98/description.shtml
http://wa98.web.cern.ch/WA98/setup.shtml
http://wa98.web.cern.ch/WA98/institutes.shtml

or will participate in the ALICE CERN experiment at Large Hadron Collider, for details see:
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/HeavyIon.html
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/When_time_begin.html>
http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/Public/Detector.html.

Tutor:
Professor Teodor Siemiarczuk
The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies
High Energy Physics Department
69 Hoża st.
Warszawa, Poland
mobile (++48) 604641919, phone (++4822) 6219444, fax (++48)6212804