Research topics include:
Investigation of the QCD phase diagram, order of the phase
transition, existence of the critical point and its dependence on the
model parameters
Hadron Resonance Gas model and its applications
Light mesons in a deconfined medium, mesonic correlation functions,
screening masses
Transport coefficients of the deconfined medium, microscopic origin
of its ideal fluid behavior
Color-magnetic monopoles and their role in the QCD fluid
Dense hadronic matter and astrophysical applications
Quasiparticle models
Polyakov loop-extended Nambu Jona-Lasinio model and its applications
to QCD thermodynamics and phase diagram
Collaborations
Our projects are being pursued in close contact with experiments at major accelerator facilities, e.g., CERN (Geneva), RHIC (BNL), GSI (Darmstadt)
We have active collaborations
with several institutions and universities:
Technical University Munich (Germania)
Catania University (Italy)
ECT* Trento (Italy)
Torino University (Italy)
Theory Division at CERN (Switzerland)
Heavy ion collision experiments are now running at RHIC
(BNL) and at the LHC (CERN)!