Amit Kumar
Research Interests
My broad research interest lies in understanding the behavior of the system of strongly interacting particles in thermal and non-thermal environments. These extreme environments are produced in high-energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). One of my main goals is to explore how the high-energy elementary particles describing the nuclear force - the quarks and gluons - modify as they traverse a strongly interacting nuclear matter, such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). I develop physics models describing how high-energy particles interact with the QGP, using guidance from perturbative quantum field theory, the lattice gauge theory, and Monte-Carlo techniques. Using sophisticated numerical and Monte-Carlo techniques, we perform full model-to-experimental-data comparisons to constrain our model and test new physics.