Thesis supervisor: Máté Csanád
Location of studies (in Hungarian): ELTE, Department of Atomic Physics Abbreviation of location of studies: ELTE
Description of the research topic:
The goal of high energy heavy ion physics is to experimentally investigate the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter; a research area at the frontiers of our understanding of strong interaction, one of the four fundamental interactions in our Universe. Quantum statistical correlations provide a unique tool to study the space-time structure of particle creation in the extreme temperature fireball created high energy heavy ion collisions. This PhD topic covers the measurement of such correlations at RHIC (PHENIX experiment) and at the LHC (CMS experiment).
Required language skills: english C1 Further requirements: programming skills in C++, good knowledge in particle physics (quantum field theory basics, strong interaction, Standard Model), interest in experimental physics