Our main interest in relativistic heavy ion physics is presently five-fold:
the analysis of strange exotic particles which might have formed during the QCD phase transition
the analysis of heavy flavor baryon and meson production, which will shed light on the hadronization process during the QCD phase transition.
the analysis of collective flow phenomena to determine the initial conditions in the deconfined phase.
the analysis of quantum entanglement effects in elementary and heavy ion collisions from the initial to the final state of the interaction
the link between low energy, high density measurements at RHIC and the evolution of neutron star mergers.
More details to these topics can be found in the publications section
Courses
In the Fall 2013 semester I decided to teach an advanced graduate course in Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics at UH (PHYS 7397). The webpage for this course is here
Introductory Presentations
R. Bellwied lectures at the 2013 Summer School in Siena, Italy:
Interesting Colloquia
Krishna Rajagopal (MIT): Doping and Probing the Original Liquid (Houston, January 2016)
Thomas Ullrich (BNL): The Glue that binds us (Houston, March 2015)
Claudia Ratti (UH), QM 2014 talk for students: Phase Diagram, Fluctuations, Thermodynamics, and Hadron Chemistry
Rene Bellwied (UH): YouTube version my 2021 Texas A&M Colloquium on Matter under Extreme Conditions - Multidisciplinary Aspects of Relativistic Particle Collisions
Relevant Presentations for interdisciplinary research in Nuclear Astrophysics
David Radice (Penn State): Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with Neutron Star Mergers (Houston, October 2021)
Luciano Rezzolla (Frankfurt): Binary Neutron Stars: from macroscopic collisions to microphysics (Online, June 2022)
Aleksi Kurkela (CERN): Quark Cores in Neutron Stars (Online, July 2020)
Anna Watts (Amsterdam): A NICER view of Neutron Stars (Online, August 2020)