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To describe such complex phenomenon one has to rely on phenomenological models, which can be subdivided into macroscopic, i.e. thermal and hydrodynamic, and microscopic Monte Carlo models, incorporating partonic and hadronic degrees of freedom in a consistent fashion. These models are indispensable for the comparison with the experimental data coming from current heavy-ion accelerators and for planning the new machines such as FAIR at GSI, NICA at JINR, and FCC at CERN, which is widely discussed nowadays.
In Oslo we use several MC models at our disposal, namely, Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) and Quark-Gluon String Model (QGSM) for description of various hadronic and nuclear collisions, and HYDrodynamics with JETs (HYDJET++) model for simulation of heavy-ion collisions.
The list of possible topics for MSc theses can be formulated as follows:
- relaxation of hot and dense nuclear matter to thermal and chemical equilibrium; extraction of transport coefficients (shear and bulk viscosity):
- development of anisotropic flow (directed, elliptic, triangular and so forth) in expanding fireball at energies from few GeV to several TeV;
- directed and elliptic flow in proton-proton collisions;
- gluon shadowing and other cold nuclear matter effects;
- forward-backward multiplicity correlations in proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions;
- event-by-event fluctuations;
- investigation of the role of geometric and dynamic anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions.
During your study you will get a chance to visit leading scientific centers, meet top-class physicists, attend scientific conferences throughout the world, and present the results of your study there.