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)

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