Research
The Theoretical Physics Department consists of 21 physicists and 2 PhD
students working on different aspects of low energy, high energy, plasma
and nonlinear physics, as well as cosmology and string theory.
In addition, close
collaborations with experimental groups: COMPASS, ASACUSA/ACOL and ALICE
at CERN, and participation in the EURIDICE (European CHP Program) should
also be emphasized. Results of our work in 2004 have been presented in 41
regular published papers (plus some conference proceedings) and in 20
papers already accepted for publication. They were also presented at
numerous seminars, both in Poland and abroad. Worthy of special emphasis
are results of studies on:
- properties of superheavy and exotic nuclei;
- strange nuclear matter;
- search for Majorana Neutrino;
- nonextensivity in hadronic and nuclear collisions and application of
stochastic networks to elementary particle physics;
- fluctuations as signal of the phase or formation of QGP form of
matter;
- some problems connected with parity violation;
- diffractive production processes in QCD;
- studies of exotic mesons and pentaquarks;
- confirmation of Feynman's hypothesis in BE condensates.
Other topics covered include studies on entrance channel in fusion
reactions, studies of nuclear surface by antiprotons, quantization of
particle dynamics in curved spacetimes, research in string theory
and solitons in media.
Collaborations with several universities and institutions have been
maintained. These include the Universities of Warsaw, Kielce, the Polish
Academy of Sciences, Munchen, Paris, Cambridge(UK), Liege, Helsinki, Sao Paulo,
Berkeley, St. Petersburg, Regensburg, Lipsk, London, Warwick as well as
CERN, GSI and JINR.
