2025-12-01
Article
SA1_HQCD
Research Area
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental interactions. To understand it better, QCD needs to be studied under extreme temperature and density conditions, such as those that existed microseconds after the Big Bang.
In that “primordial soup” a new state of matter was generated, known as a plasma of quarks and gluons, which could also be found today in the interior of neutron stars. To study this phenomenon, its conditions are recreated in colliders such as the LHC at CERN or the RHIC in Brookhaven (USA).
The IGFAE team is an international reference in the theory and phenomenology of hot and dense QCD, and has positions of responsibility in the design and configuration of future particle accelerators that will study this fundamental force. Some of the theories developed allow connections between this programme and the IGFAE gravitational wave programme.
The IGFAE is currently developing the YoctoLHC project, funded by an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
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Initial date
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Final date
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Agency
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Initial date
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Final date
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Agency
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Initial date
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Final date
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Principal investigator
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Initial date
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Final date
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