Theoretical Physics

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Research in theoretical elementary particle physics will focus on theproperties of nuclear matter in extreme environments, such as hightemperatures or high density. Phase transitions are expected in thesesituations between conventional matter approximating the interior of alarge nucleus and new, highly exotic large-scale states of matter in whichthere may be superfluidity, superconductivity and plasmas of unconfinedquarks and gluons, the constituents of nuclear matter. Computersimulations as well as precise, analytic methods based on the theory ofsymmetries, will be employed to search for these new phenomena. Thesestudies are important because they may tell us about conditions in theearly universe.