Elementary particles of the Standard Model, such as quarks, are the fundamental building blocks of visible matter in the universe. Their properties, interactions, and collective behaviors have shaped the world we live in. In the early universe, immediately after the Big Bang, a high-temperature and high-density quark-gluon plasma was formed. As the universe expanded and cooled, quarks condensed to form nucleons, atomic nuclei, and eventually stars, ultimately giving rise to the diverse and richly structured material world we see today.

The Quark Matter Research Center investigates the composition and history of the universe from the most fundamental level of the structure of matter — the quarks and other elementary particles. Our core scientific interests include the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, the origin of the mass of visible matter in the universe and the properties of neutrinos.

The Quark Matter Research Center consists of four research groups: the Nucleon Structure Group, the Nuclear Matter Phase Structure Group, the Neutrino Properties Group, and the Pixel Detector Group.

Medium-to-high energy nuclear physics, focus on the following four research areas:

1. Nucleon structure

2. Nuclear matter phase structure

3. Neutrino properties

4. Pixel detectors