Study of phase transition signatures of strongly interacting matter and evolution of nuclear collisions at relativistic energies using statistical models
supervisor: Dr. Magdalena Kuich, e-mail: mkuich@fuw.edu.pl
An important research issue of nuclear physics and particle physics is the study of the phase transition between hadron matter, which we encounter every day, and the new state of matter of strongly interacting matter, quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Experiments such as NA61/SHINE (SPS, CERN) and MPD (NICA, JINR) deal with, among other things, searching for QGP signatures and studying the mechanism of its production. The student’s task will be to study the characteristics of the phase transition of strongly interacting matter and the evolution of nuclear collisions using statistical models (eg. EPOS, HSD, UrQMD, HIJING, Pythia). The implementation of the exercise requires knowledge of Linux OS and programming skills (knowledge of the ROOT environment is welcome).