Staff: Prof. L.P. Csernai, Grad. Students: Csaba Anderlik (for Ph.D.). Volodymyr Magas (for Ph.D.),
Effective parton models are used both in analytic and numerical models to describe hadron-hadron and hadron nucleus collisions. The models are rather simple but still accurate, so they can provide ground to statistical studies needed in astrophysics, hadron physics and in heavy ion physics. We worked also on applications in all these fields. Some of the basic works presenting this activity can be found in the following publications:
Relativistic dynamics of idealized surfaces is studied in continuum theories and in coarse grained relativistic field theory. Basic advances were reached in several fields where 30-40 year old basic results were improved, generalized and completed, leading to a very large impact of these results. Our most basic results are described in the following publications:
Finite temperature field theoretical models were used to study dynamical properties of chiral fields, particularly describing rapid transitions between metastable states and studying the arising fluctuations. Both thermal and quantum fluctuations were considerd in small mesoscopic systems. Many problems are unsolved yet in this area, which is now at the borderline of the theoretical developments in finite temperature field theory. Some basic publications:
These research subjects are connected to hadronic reactions, features of early universe and neutron stars and indirectly also to heavy ion reactions. Research directly connected to heavy ions is presented under the header of Nuclear Theory.
These research activities are organized in different, projects, networks and collaborations, like the Bergen-Oslo Nuclear Theory Team, which recently became part of the newly established Norwegian National Nuclear- and Particle- Theory Research Project supported by the CERN Programme of the Research Council of Norway (NFR).
Last updated by L.P. Csernai, Bergen, Jan. 11, 1999