Romatschke

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:27:20 +0000

Paul Romatschke

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

I am currently an assistant professor in the Physics Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder. My research interests include: Cold Dense Matter, Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics, Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities, and Nonlinear Gravity. For more on these areas, please see my Physics Department homepage.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

nuclear physics

paul.romatschke@colorado.edu

Phone

303-492-1578 (office)

303-492-3352 (fax)

Website

http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~paulrom/

Nuclear Physics

kdcadmin — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:43:49 +0000

Nuclear Physics kdcadmin Thu, 03/09/2023 - 2:43 pm

Nuclear physics research is focused on understanding the matter composed of quarks and gluons, which makes up 99% of the mass of the universe. Most of this matter is found at the core of atoms, the same atoms that comprise all we see around us (including ourselves). Researchers seek to answer questions such as how the universe evolved just after the Big Bang from a super-hot plasma of quarks and gluons, how the different elements of the universe were formed, and how a nucleus is made up of individual protons and neutrons interacting with each other with the strongest force in Nature. The protons and neutrons themselves are the basic bound states of quarks in the universe; how these states are formed from quarks interacting with the gluonic field described by Quantum Chromodynamics is still only poorly understood, and under active study.

CTQM Fellow(s)

Paul Romatschke