Structure-of-matter Física Experimental de Partículas com Aceleradores
Knowing the properties of the elementary particles and the way in which they interact is knowing what we are made of. The properties of quarks and gluons must determine the properties of protons and neutrons and, as a consequence, of the atoms themselves. And we still have a lot to discover about the ways in which elementary quarks and gluons work together to form the particles we observe, from the proton to a variety of more exotic hadrons. The LIP structure of matter group is currently involved in the COMPASS experiment, designed to study hadron structure, and in the HADES experiment at GSI, studying cold nuclear matter at high densities.