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, and is the core component of the IoP Theory Hub.
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)