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HADRONS AND BARYONIC SYSTEMS Department of Theoretical Physics |
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Strangeness nuclear physics bears a broad impact on contemporary
physics since it lies at the intersection of nuclear and particle
physics and astrophysics. It is of fundamental importance in our
understanding of the strong interaction. A hyperon embedded in the nuclear medium presents a unique probe of the deep nuclear interior which makes it possible to study a variety of otherwise inaccessible nuclear phenomena, and thereby test nuclear models. The added strange hadron, whether hyperon or antikaon, introduces an SU(3)-flavor dimension to traditional nuclear physics. It enables us to study directly models of baryon-baryon and meson-baryon interactions as well as effective field theory approaches which encode the basic ingredients of QCD at low energy. |
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Our group is known worldwide as it has been contributing significantly
to the development of the field since eighties. Three of our current members
won the Award of the Czech. Academy of Sciences in 1992.
Members of the group won several times the Award of Nuclear Physics Institute
for the best published work: 2nd prize in 2001 and 1st prize in 2007, 2009, and 2012 . The group has on-going international collaborations with key-figures both in theory and experiment from leading world laboratories in Japan, USA, Israel, Italy, Germany, Russia. Our members took an active part in the preparation of proposals and interpretation of experiments at JLab (USA) and Tohoku University (Japan). |
