Particle physics
The department’s research groups seek to understand the fundamental structures and forces of matter and the structure, origin and evolution of the universe. The Department of Physics hosts the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter (2022–2029), which aims to understand how the properties of quarks and gluons become observable in high-energy particle impact experiments. These experiments will be carried out at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. In particular, CERN will study how and when matter changes to a new state called the quark–gluon plasma, where quarks and gluons move freely.
Our main collaborator is the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) at the University of Helsinki, for a significant part of our research is associated with its research programmes.
