Sanjin Benić - Quantum chromodynamics in accelerated frames
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Sanjin Benić, picture taken from the website.
Sanjin Benic is a theoretical physicist, focused on the area of the strong force - Quantum Chromodynamics. He was born on August 21, 1982 in Pula, Croatia. In 2013 he earned his PhD at Zagreb University. In 2014 he was awarded a NEWFELPRO research scholarship. As a NEWFELPRO fellow, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tokyo from 2014 to 2016 where he was working on the acceleration effect in Quantum Chromodynamics. Also, he did his return phase of his NEWFELPRO scholarship at the Zagreb University. As a direct result of the NEWFELPRPO scholarship he published 3 papers so far. The obtained results will be tested in high energy heavy ion collision experiments on current and future facilities.
As a NEWFELPRO fellow, he implemented project called „Quantum chromodynamics in accelerated frames (AQCD)“ at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo and Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatia).
In his NEWFELPRO project he was researching quantum chromodynamics. Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of interactions between the basic building blocks of matter: quarks and gluons. In nature quarks and gluons appear confined to the states known as hadrons. Given sufficient heat or compression, hadrons dissolve. Matter under such extreme conditions is prepared for a short time in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC and is called the quark-gluon plasma. The plasma is not a static object, but in particular rapidly decelerates. The researcher was interested in the early stages of the collision where the acceleration is strong enough to alter the vacuum structure of QCD. By formulating Quantum chromodynamics in accelerated frames he examined possibillity that the state of quasi-free quarks and gluons, where also chiraland axial baryon number symmetry is restored can be achieved for strong enough acceleration. This research improves the understanding of the early time thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma.
During his NEWFELPRO experience, he wrote scientific papers listed below:
As a NEWFELPRO fellow, he implemented project called „Quantum chromodynamics in accelerated frames (AQCD)“ at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo and Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (Croatia).
In his NEWFELPRO project he was researching quantum chromodynamics. Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of interactions between the basic building blocks of matter: quarks and gluons. In nature quarks and gluons appear confined to the states known as hadrons. Given sufficient heat or compression, hadrons dissolve. Matter under such extreme conditions is prepared for a short time in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC and is called the quark-gluon plasma. The plasma is not a static object, but in particular rapidly decelerates. The researcher was interested in the early stages of the collision where the acceleration is strong enough to alter the vacuum structure of QCD. By formulating Quantum chromodynamics in accelerated frames he examined possibillity that the state of quasi-free quarks and gluons, where also chiraland axial baryon number symmetry is restored can be achieved for strong enough acceleration. This research improves the understanding of the early time thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma.
During his NEWFELPRO experience, he wrote scientific papers listed below:
- Benić, Sanjin, and Arata Yamamoto. "Quantum Monte Carlo simulation with a black hole." Physical Review D 93.9 (2016): 094505.
- Benić, Sanjin, and Kenji Fukushima. "Photon from the annihilation process with CGC in the pA collision." Nuclear Physics A 958 (2017): 1-24.
- Benić, Sanjin, and Adrian Dumitru. "Prompt photon-jet angular correlations at central rapidities in p+ A collisions." Physical Review D 97.1 (2018): 014012.
- Benić, Sanjin, et al. "Probing gluon saturation with next-to-leading order photon production at central rapidities in proton-nucleus collisions." Journal of High Energy Physics 2017.1 (2017): 115.
Moreover, he attended several events due to disseminate project results:
- Presentation at „Equilibriation Mechanisms in Weakly and Strongly Coupled Quantum Field Theory“ – Institute for Nuclear Energy – Seattle – 8/2015
- Presentation at „Selected topics in the physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma and Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collions“ – Kyoto, Japan – 1/2016
- Poster at „Quark matter 2015“ – Kobe, Japan – 10/2015
- Presentation at „Kyoto Meeting“ – Kyoto Univerity – 6/2016
- Presentation at International Symposium for Multiparticle Dynamics – ISMD 2016 – Jeju Island, South Korea – 9/2016
- Presentation at „International conference of hard and electromagnetic probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions“ – Wuhan, China, 9/2016
- Research visit to the Brookhaven National Laboratory – Upton, New York, USA – 1/2017
- Research visit to Baruch college – NY, USA – 1/2017
- Presentation at „7th Workshop of the APS topical group on Hadronic Physics“ – Washington, USA – 2/2017
- Presentation at“12th International Conference on High Pt physics“ – Bergen – Norway – 10/2017
After completion of his NEWFELPRO project he plans to continue his research in the area of high energy quaantum chromodynamics. Now, his research goal is to explain the photon data from hadron colliders using the Color Glass Condensate picture of QCD. Also, his academic goal is to obtain a permanent position at the University of Zagreb, where he is eager to write a new research project and take students.