Strongly interacting fields
Reinhard Alkofer
Research
The primary focus of the research in our group is the physics of strongly-interacting gauge theories. To explore these kind of quantum field theories we employ continuum methods, in particular, functional methods.
Current research projects include:
- Physics of light and heavy mesons, in particular, production mechanisms, decays, time-like form factors and isospin breaking effects, from Poincaré-covariant quark-antiquark bound state equations;
- Unquenched QCD vertex functions in Landau gauge calculated in continuum quantum field theory with functional methods;
- Time-dependence of electron-positron pair production in ultra-strong laser fields (Sauter-Schwinger effect in strong-field quantum electrodynamics) from the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism;
- Ultraviolet completion of the Standard Model via a minimally parameterization of New Physics in the Renormalization Group equations; and
- Dirac fermions and torsion in Einstein-Cartan gravity, including the unimodular version of Einstein-Cartan gravity, and the quark condensates' impact on the cosmological constant.
Teaching
Spring term 2024
In the spring term 2024 I am going to teach
Project in: "Particle Physics"
An invitation to master students to work on a project of their choice in a small team.
Simply come to the kick-off meeting on Thursday March 7 at 15:15 in SR 05.13 or write me a mail (reinhard.alkofer at uni-graz.at).
Computational Methods in Particle Physics
Advanced Mathematical Methods 2
Master students might also be interested to come to the talks in the
Master's Seminar in the Area of the Master's Thesis (Particle Physics)
and the
Team
Prof. Reinhard Alkofer
Matthias Diez, MSc BSc
Niko Heineman, MSc BSc
Georg Wieland, MSc BSc
Johannes Anzengruber, BSc
Tristan Feyer, BSc
Katharina Urdl, BSc
Iulian Grazov
Michael Mayer
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alkofer
Phone:+43 316 380 - 8581
Location:Universitätsplatz 5
Web: https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/reinhard.alkofer/