The Department of Particle Physics is engaged in both experimental and theoretical research, in various directions. These include elementary particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, field theory, string theory, molecular physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, and radiation detection physics.
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O. Aharony
Supersymmetric gauge theories.
Non-perturbative effects and formulations of string theories.
Relations between field theories and string theories.
Non-gravitational string theories.
A. Breskin, R. Chechik
Basic phenomena, related to radiation detection, including charge transport and multiplication in gases, photoemission and secondary electron emission.
Novel particle and photon detection techniques for particle physics, x-ray diffraction. Bio-medicine, surface analysis.
Digital mammography, early detection of cancer, radiation damage to DNA.
E. Cheifetz
Response and noise of storage phosphor imaging plates for low and high energy photons.
Electron emission induced by ion bombardment in diamond like, metallic, and oxidized surfaces.
Y. Frishman
Non-abelian gauge theories.
From current to constituent quarks.
Confinement and screening.
D. Gepner
Rational conformal field theory and solvable lattice models.
S.A. Gurvitz
Final state interaction in inclusive reactions.
Multi-dimensional and resonant tunnelling.
Quantum transport in mesoscopic systems and the measurement problem.
H. Harari
Physics of neutrinos.
M. Hass
Nuclear polarization via multifoil techniques: signs of quadrupole moments and magnetic moments of exotic mirror nuclei.
Nuclear electromagnetic moments at high spin: nuclear shape determination and magnetic moments in the superdeformed region.
Remeasurement of the cross-section of the 7Be(p,g)8Be reaction, which is of critical importance in the solar-neutrino discrepancy.
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurements of nuclear reactions relevant to astrophysical processes.
U. Karshon
Heavy quark production at the HERA e-p collider.
Gluon density in the proton and partonic structure of the photon.
Tests of QCD dynamics in high energy e-p collisions.
M.W. Kirson
Algebraic models of many-body systems.
Theoretical investigation of nuclear structure.
The interacting boson model for nuclei.
M. Kugler
Physical properties of solitons solution.
Bundles of DNA Molecules.
H.J. Lipkin
Quantum mechanics of flavor oscillations.
Mössbauer effect with synchrotron radiation sources.
Nuclear and particle physics phenomenology and history.
Y. Maron, V. Bernshtam, V. Fisher, Y. Ralchenko, A. Starobinets
Dynamics of plasmas subjected to high energy deposition, shock waves, ionization fronts, kinetics and transport in nonequilibrium plasmas, magnetic field penetration, particle flows, turbulent electric fields, nonthermal electron energy distributions.
Z-pinches and plasma switches, spectroscopic diagnostics of plasmas in the visible to x-ray region.
Atomic calculations, cross sections and probabilities, field ionization, Stark and Zeeman effects.
G. Mikenberg, E. Duchovni, E. Gross, L. Levinson, D. Lellouch
Search for the standard-model and SUSY Higgs-bosons at LEP.
Detector development and study of physics for LHC.
Search for Supersymmetry at LEP.
Search for Higgs bosons and SUSY particles at LHC.
Trigger and data acquisition for LHC experiments.
Reconfigurable computing.
Y. Nir
Neutrino masses.
CP violation.
Dynamical Supersymmetry breaking.
I. Tserruya, I. Ravinovich
Study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions using the CERES detector at CERN and the PHENIX detector at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Electron pair production in relativistic heavy ion collisions: search for quark-gluon plasma and chiral symmetry restoration.
Detector development and construction for PHENIX: pad chambers and "Hadron blind" RICH (Rich Imaging Cherenkov) detector.
D. Zajfman, O. Heber, Z. Vager
Molecular astrophysics.
Cooling of molecular ions, ion trap dynamics.
Molecular physics using storage rings.
Molecular structure using Coulomb explosion imaging and laser-induced photodetachment.
Z. Zinamon
Theoretical study of the stopping of energetic charged particles in plasma.
Thermodynamic and transport properties of dense, strongly coupled plasmas.
The interaction of fast cluster-ions and large molecule-ions with matter.