Wim Cosyn
Florida International University, FL·Physics·Early-career
Atomic nuclei make up nearly all the visible matter around us. They are held together by the strong interaction, the fundamental force that binds quarks and gluons.
- Fields
Physics
- Topics
nuclear physics
theoretical physics
strong interaction
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Model high-energy electron scattering off the deuteron and helium using light-front quantum mechanics to separate nuclear structure from reaction dynamics.
- Probe how the nuclear medium changes quark and gluon structure, using reactions where detecting nuclear breakup controls the initial state.
- Apply a new algorithm that generalizes spin-1/2 Dirac algebra to higher spins to study spin-dependent reactions on polarized light nuclei.
- Produce theoretical predictions relevant to experiments at Jefferson Lab and the future Electron-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab.
More about the research
Yet how nuclei, and the protons and neutrons inside them, arise from this force is still not understood. This theory project studies the strong interaction by modeling high-energy collisions with light nuclei. These collisions reveal the quarks and gluons inside and allow measurements that are impossible on a lone proton.
Why it matters
This is basic physics on how visible matter emerges from the strong force. The calculations support current and future experiments at Jefferson Lab and the planned Electron-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab. They could help interpret measurements of quark and gluon structure inside nuclei.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Huey-Wen Lin
Michigan State University, MI·Physics
Compute parton distribution functions of nucleons and mesons with lattice QCD at high precision, varying lattice spacing and volume and working at the physical pion mass to control errors from the simulation.
Rosi Reed
Lehigh University, PA·Physics
Measure how jet energy loss in quark-gluon plasma depends on temperature, density and path length, using dijet momentum imbalance and jet v2 from STAR and sPHENIX at RHIC.
Jinfeng Liao
Indiana University, IN·Physics
Quantify chirality transport through the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in quark-gluon plasma, using anomalous viscous hydrodynamics simulations and Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion data across many beam energies.
The school
Florida International University: 9 labs on PI Pages, $326M a year on research, 264 research doctorates a year.
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