Faculty members:

• Azizi, Kazem (Professor)
• Deldar, Sedigheh (Professor)
• Ebrahim Najafabadi, Hajar (Assistant Professor, head of the group)
• Khatibi, Sara (Assistant Professor)
• Mahjour-shafiei, Masoud (Associate Professor)
• Mohseni Sajadi, Hossein (Associate Professor)
• Moshfegh, Hamid Reza (Professor)

Research Areas:

• Structure function of hadrons and nuclei, EMC effect, Perturbative and nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics, Quark-gluon plasma, Gluon fusion contribution in Higgs boson cross section, Calculation of parton functions corresponding to transverse momentum and their roles in production of heavy mesons.
• Many particle systems in strong interaction and short range.
• Field theory and particle Physics in curved space time, Early universe, Dark energy, Dark matter.
• Topological effects in Particle Physics.
• The idea of holography (gauge/gravity duality) and its applications in the strongly coupled theories, most importantly, QCD and QGP (Quark-Gluon Plasma).
• Studying QCD vacuum by topological defects like monopoles and dyons and center vortices,QCD and lattice gauge theory, Using phenomenological models to study quark confinement and calculating the potential between quarks.