Particle and Nuclear Physics












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            * Particle and Nuclear Physics
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            The research focuses on experimental and theoretical study of elementary particles and ato

            the goal to contribute to the detailed tests of the standard model (SM) of fundamental int
            search for physical phenomena beyond the SM, and improve the present knowledge of the nucl
            nucleon interactions.

            Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics
            Research in theoretical particle physics concentrates mainly on an adequate description of
            of the electroweak theory, possible phenomena beyond the SM such as baryon and lepton numb

            study of low energy meson interactions, calculations of the effective field amplitudes, a 
            some specific mathematical methods of quantum field theory.

            Research in experimental particle physics is performed within the framework of the world l
            accelerator experiments with an emphasis on the exploitation of the full potential of the 
            membership in CERN [ URL "https://home.cern/"] . These experiments are: ATLAS [ URL "https

            at CERN (study of the properties of the Higgs boson and the top quark; B physics; heavy io
            diffraction physics), NA62 [ URL "https://na62.web.cern.ch/na62/"] at CERN (investigation 
            violation and of rare decays of K mesons), Belle [ URL "https://belle.kek.jp/"] and Belle 

            "https://www.belle2.org/"] at KEK [ URL "https://www2.kek.jp/accl/eng/"] (study of CP viol
            rare decays of B-mesons). Important parts of the research are neutrino physics (Daya Bay [
            dayabay.ihep.ac.cn/twiki/bin/view/Public/"] , NOvA [ URL "https://novaexperiment.fnal.gov/

            "https://www.dunescience.org/"] and SuperNEMO [ URL "http://supernemo.org/collaboration.ht
            and astroparticle physics (experiments AUGER [ URL "https://www.auger.org/"] and CTA [ URL
            www.cta-observatory.org/"] )." Research activities are oriented also on the development, p

            testing of components of detector complexes.





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            * Theoretical and Experimental Nuclear Physics
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            Research in the physics of atomic nuclei and related strongly interacting many?body system
            following areas:
            (i) Experimental study of nuclear properties at high excitation energies. Subjects of inve

            various statistical features of excited nuclear states and their decays. We participate in
            of cross sections of the neutron?induced reactions in experiment n_TOF [ URL "https://ntof
            ntof-exp/"] at CERN.

            (ii) Microscopic theory of collective nuclear dynamics. The research include calculations 
            realistic two?nucleon potentials as well as related phenomenological functional approaches
            (iii) Theory of quantum phase transitions and chaos in algebraic models of nuclei and othe

            systems. We focus on the dynamical signatures of quantum chaos and on quantum critical pro
            ground and excited states.







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            * Selected outputs

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            • ATLAS Coll. (G. Aad et al.): Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standar
              boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, Phys. Lett. B 716, 1-29 (2012).

            • Daya Bay Collaboration (F.P. An (Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.) et al.): Observation 
              antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay, Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 171803
            • C. Cheung, K. Kampf, J. Novotny, C. H. Shen and J. Trnka: A Periodic Table of Effective 

              JHEP 1702 (2017)
            • L. Damone et al. (n_TOF collaboration): Be-7 (n,p)Li-7 Reaction and the Cosmological Lit
              Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN, Physical Revie

              042701 (2018).
            • V.?O. Nesterenko, A. Repko, J. Kvasil, and P.-G. Reinhard: Individual Low-Energy Toroida
              in Mg-24, Physical Review Letters 120, 182501 (2018).

            • M. Kloc, P. Stránský, P. Cejnar: Quantum Quench Dynamics in Dicke Superradiance Models, 
              A 98, 013836 (2018).