Projects

NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS:

Low Energy Nuclear Physics

• Fermionic Molecular Dynamics & Unitary Correlator Method
  (H. Feldmeier, T. Neff, R. Roth (TUD)), more details ...
• Microscopic Nucleus-Nucleus Potentials
  (S. Bacca, H. Feldmeier, T. Neff, K. Langanke)
• Shell Model applications to nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics
  (S. Bacca, H. Feldmeier, G. Martinez-Pinedo, T. Neff, K. Langanke)
• Multifragmentation Dynamics
  & Liquid-gas Phase Transition (W. Nörenberg)
• Direct and Coulomb Excitation and Dissociation Reactions of Astrophysical Interest (S. Typel)
• Effective Interaction Models for the Structure of heavy Nuclei
  (S. Typel)
• Renormalization Group Approach to Effective Interactions:
  in vacuum/ in medium: Fermi-liquids
  (B. Friman, K. Hebeler (PhD-Th), A. Schwenk (Ohio), L. Tolos)
  Dense Quark Matter (K. Hebeler (Dipl-Th))

Nuclear Astrophysics

• Nuclear Physics Aspects of Supernovae
  (G. Martinez-Pinedo, K. Langanke)
• Neutrino Nucleus Reactions in Astrophysics
  (G. Martinez-Pinedo, K. Langanke)
• Explosive nucleosynthesis
  (G. Martinez-Pinedo)

HADRON AND QUARK PHYSICS:

Structure of Hadrons and Elementary Hadronic Interactions

• Chiral extrapolation of baryon masses
  (M.F.M.Lutz, A. Semke)
• Charm-exchange reactions and coupled-channel dynamics
  (M.F.M. Lutz, J. Hofmann)
• Photo-production reactions and the structure of baryon resonances
  (M.F.M. Lutz, M. Soyeur)
• Chiral excitations in QCD
  (M.F.M. Lutz, E. Kolomeitsev, J. Hofmann)
• Low-energy meson-baryon scattering from the chiral SU(3) Lagrangian
  (M.F.M. Lutz, E. Kolomeitsev)
• Scattering of vector mesons off nucleons
  (M.F.M. Lutz, Gy. Wolf, B. Friman)

Hadrons in Dense Matter

• Open-charm systems in cold nuclear matter
  (M.F.M. Lutz, C.L. Korpa)
• Antikaons and hyperons in cold nuclear matter
  (M.F.M. Lutz, C.L. Korpa, M. Möller)
• Pions in cold nuclear matter
  (M.F.M. Lutz, C.L. Korpa, F. Riek)
• Effective Field Theory Models & Thermodynamics
  ( B. Friman, J. Knoll, F. Riek (PhD-Th), C. Sasaki)
• Renormalization and symmetries in selfconsistent
  Dyson Resummation Schemes
  (H. van Hees (Texas A&M), J. Knoll), more details ...
• Vector mesons in dense matter within
  Dyson and coupled channel resummation schemes
  ( J. Knoll, F. Riek (PhD-Th))
• Gapless Hartree-Fock approximation in the Nambu-Goldstone phase
  (Y. Ivanov, J. Knoll, F. Riek), more details ...

Phase Structure of QCD

• Polyakov-Loop Approaches
  ( B. Friman, C. Sasaki, K. Redlich, J. Wambach)
• Schwinger-Dyson approaches
  (C. Fischer, J. Wambach)

High Energy Nuclear Collision Dynamics

• Multi-Component Hydrodynamics
  (Y. Ivanov, V. Russkikh, V. Toneev) more details ...
• Transport String Fragmentation Model
  (V. Toneev)
• Conservation Laws in Quantum Transport
  (Y. Ivanov, J. Knoll, D. Voskresensky), more details ...
• Phase Transition Dynamics (Flavor kinetics)
  (B. Friman, J. Knoll, H-W. Barz (Rossendorf), H. Schulz)