High Energy Theory Group
The High Energy Theory Group utilizes analytical tools, computational simulations, and machine learning to address unsolved fundamental questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and laboratory experiments.
Group Leaders
- Fedynitch, Anatoli – Theoretical astroparticle physics and data analysis, focusing on atmospheric neutrinos and ultra-high energy cosmic rays – Personal Website
- Li, Hsiang-nan – Perturbative QCD, heavy flavor physics, flavor structure of the Standard Model – Personal Website
- Ng, Kin-Wang – Early universe, inflationary cosmology and quantum fluctuations, dark matter, dark energy, cosmic microwave background, gravitational wave background – Personal Website
- Wu, Meng-Ru – Theoretical astroparticle physics and nuclear astrophysics – Group Website
- Yang, Di-Lun – Quantum field theory and transport phenomena under extreme conditions, high-energy nuclear collisions – Personal Website
Cosmology and High-energy Astrophysics
Probes of cosmic inflation; Origin of the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds; Origins of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays; Composition of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays; Neutrino oscillations and transport in dense astrophysical media; Astrophysical insights into dark matter; Astrophysical origins of nature’s heavy elements.
(Anatoli Fedynitch, Kin-Wang Ng, Meng-Ru Wu, and Di-Lun Yang)
Multimessenger high-energy astrophysics (credit: IceCube/NASA)
Neutrino and nucleosynthesis in astrophysical explosions (credit: NASA/LIGO/STScI)
Cosmology (credit: NASA)
Collider Physics, Nuclear physics, and Particle Phenomenology
Origin of the mass hierarchy and flavor structure in Standard Model; CP violation in heavy meson and baryon experiments; Transport of spin polarization and alignment in QCD matter.
(Hsiang-nan Li and Di-Lun Yang)
Particle content of Standard Model (credit: Wikipedia)
Heavy-ion collisions and QCD matter (credit: Chun Shen; from this website)