Wigner Research Centre for Physics

Heavy-ion Physics
Research Group

Introduction

We are the Heavy-ion Research Group in the Theory Department of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics (part of the Hungarian Research Network) in Budapest, Hungary.

High-energy heavy ion physics involves many branches of physics, so research in this field covers a very broad range of topics. The research directions include the most fundamental concepts of classical and modern thermodynamics, hydrodynamics and quantum theory, as well as perturbative and non-perturbative quantum field dynamics, high-energy nuclear physics, hadronization and hadron phenomenology. Our results contribute to the interpretation of measurements from the largest international experiments (e.g. CERN-LHC, BNL-RHIC), to the prediction of phenomena expected at the planned new facilities (GSI-FAIR, Dubna-NICA), and to the understanding of the processes of the early universe and the internal structure of compact stars.

    Research Activities

    Properties of Hadrons at low energies

    Heavy-ion physics in the ALICE experiment

    Properties of compact stars

    The phase diagram of QCD

    New approaches in thermodynamics

    perturbative and non-perturbative QCD

Members

Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi

Group Leader

senior research fellow



Péter Ván

Director

scientific advisor



György Wolf

Department Leader

scientific advisor



Gábor Balassa

on leave



Gábor Bíró

research fellow



Bence Dudás

junior research fellow



Edit Fenyvesi

research fellow



Vahtang Gogoija

retired



Anna Horváth

junior research fellow



Győző Kovács

junior research fellow



Péter Kovács

senior research fellow



Sergei Maydanyuk

research fellow



Balázs Pál

junior research fellow



Máté Pszota

junior research fellow



Balázs Endre Szigeti

junior research fellow



Mátyás Egon Szűcs

research fellow



János Takátsy

junior research fellow