Lin Chen, a new Marie Curie fellow at IGFAE

Lin Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), has been awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-2024-PF), with the project “Probing nuclear parton dynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions with Hard Probes” (HIC-HP).

Lin joined IGFAE in 2023 after completing his PhD at Central China Normal University (Wuhan) and a two-year postdoctoral term at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). His research interests include studying jet-medium interactions in heavy-ion collisions, the gluon saturation phenomenon in forward proton-nucleus collisions, and dilepton photo-production in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions.

Under the YoctoLHC project led by Professor Carlos Salgado at IGFAE, Lin continues his work to reconcile perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations with high-energy collider experimental observations, aiming to unravel the dynamics of parton interactions in matter.

Currently, Lin and his colleagues are investigating the quantum evolution of jet multiplicity distributions in vacuum, laying the groundwork for future studies of incoherent jet quenching in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). With the MSCA-PF funding, Lin will develop a comprehensive framework to study jet-medium interactions in heavy-ion collisions, advancing our understanding of jet quenching and its implications for QGP properties. He will also explore quarkonia photo-production in ultra-peripheral collisions to probe gluon saturation in nuclear wave functions.

These projects aim to provide new insights into parton dynamics in the QGP and gluon saturation phenomena. Lin hopes his work will deepen the understanding of strong interactions and QGP properties, and he looks forward to collaborating with the high-energy physics community to advancing our knowledge of the fundamental forces.

About IGFAE

The Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) is a research center established in 1999 by the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Xunta de Galicia. Its mission is to coordinate and promote scientific and technical research in High Energy, Particle, and Nuclear Physics, as well as in related fields such as Astrophysics, Medical Physics, and Instrumentation. The institute hosts around 140 members involved in major experimental facilities such as CERN, the Pierre Auger Observatory, LIGO, and GSI/FAIR, among others.

The IGFAE has been accredited as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence by the Spanish Government’s State Research Agency. It is also part of the CIGUS network of the Regional Government of Galicia, which accredits the quality and impact of its research. The center is co-financed by the European Union through the Galicia Feder 2021-2027 Program.