l High Energy Physics
This direction focuses on in-depth exploration of the mysteries of microscopic particles and cosmic evolution, with specific research areas including:
Particle Physics: Phenomenological theory, searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model at high-energy particle colliders; CP violation and related phenomenology; quark matter theory and relativistic heavy-ion physics.
Cosmology and Astrophysics: Measurement of dark matter distribution and the Hubble constant; the influence of elementary particles and their interactions on the early cosmic inflation and evolution processes.
l Quantum Physics
This direction focuses on the study of quantum effects and dynamic behaviors in microscopic systems, with specific research areas including:
Quantum Dynamics: Localization in quantum disordered systems; quantum transport in periodically time-driven systems.
Cold Atom Physics: Dynamics and many-body problems in cold atoms; application of quantum optics in cold atoms.
Mesoscopic Physics: Quantum transport theory in mesoscopic systems; topological materials; spintronics in superconductors.
II. Key Research Members of the Team
The team currently has 8 full-time faculty members. Members participate in the physics working groups of the China Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) and the Super Proton-Proton Collider (SppC), as well as the European Future Circular Collider (FCC) and the Large Hadron-Electron Collider (LHeC).
l Team Leader: Kechen Wang
(https://inspirehep.net/authors/1259263?ui-citation-summary=true)
l Members: Yi Zhu, Dujuan Wang, Bo Xiong, Pinquan Qin, Ying-nan Mao, Peng Lü, Chao Zhang
III. Major Undertaken Scientific Research Projects and Achieved Scientific Research Results
In the past 5 years, team members have successively presided over 1 General Program and 4 Youth Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. They have published about 50 academic papers in high-level journals such as Journal of High Energy Physics, Physical Review A/B/C/D, Chinese Physics C, and European Physics Journal C.
Major Undertaken Scientific Research Projects:
[1] General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Study on Quantum Tunneling Mechanism and Its Characteristic Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Condensates", led by Bo Xiong.
[2] Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Study on Rotation and Polarization of Collective Flow in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions", led by Dujuan Wang.
[3] Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos at High-Energy Particle Colliders", led by Kechen Wang.
[4] Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Transport Study of Type-II Spin Superconductors", led by Peng Lü.
[5] Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Study on Electric Dipole Moment of CP Violation and Collider Phenomenology", led by Yinan Mao.
Representative achievements:
(In the field of high-energy physics, according to international convention, authors are listed in alphabetical order by the first letter of their last name. )
1. Zilong Ding, Ying-nan Mao and Kechen Wang, “Search for the γZ decay mode of heavy photophobic axion-like particles at the LHC”, Journal of High Energy Physics 06 (2025) 087 [hep-ph/2411.08660, DOI:10.1007/JHEP06(2025)087]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
2. Ying-nan Mao, Kechen Wang and Yiheng Xiong, “Sensitivities to New Resonance Couplings to W-Bosons at the LHC”, Chinese Physics C 49 (2025) no.8, 083106 [hep-ph/2411.14041, DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/add115]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
3. Qiming Qiu, Yu Gao, Hai-jun Tian, Kechen Wang, Zihang Wang, and Xiang-Ming Yang, “Wide Binary Evaporation by Dark Solitons: Implications from the GAIA Catalog”, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 02 (2025) 001 [hep-ph/ 2404.18099, DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/02/001]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
4. Y. Mao, K. Wang and Z. S. Wang, “Can we discover lepton number violation with the LHC far detectors?”, Physical Review D 108 (2023) no. 9, 095025 [hep-ph/2305.03908, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.095025]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
5. L. Bai, Y. Mao and K. Wang, “Probe the Mixing Parameter |VτN|2 for Heavy Neutrinos”, Physical Review D 107 (2023) no. 9, 095008 [hep-ph/2211.00309, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.095008]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
6. H. Gu, Y. Mao, H. Sun and K. Wang, “Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in the τ final state at proton-electron colliders”, Journal of High Energy Physics 09 (2023) 152 [hep-ph/2210.17050, DOI:10.1007/JHEP09(2023)152]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
7. F. A. Ghebretinsae, Z. S. Wang and K. Wang, “Probing axion-like particles coupling to gluons at the LHC”, Journal of High Energy Physics 07 (2022) 070 [hep-ph/2203.01734, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2022)070]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
8. K. Cheung, K. Wang, and Z. S. Wang, “Time-delayed electrons from neutral currents at the LHC”, Journal of High Energy Physics 09 (2021) 026 [hep-ph/2107.03203, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2021)026]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
9. Z. S. Wang, and K. Wang, “Physics with Far Detectors at Future Lepton Colliders”, Physical Review D 101 (2020) no.7, 075046 [hep-ph/1911.06576, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.075046]. (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
10. Anke Lei, D. J. Wang, D. M Zhou, B. H. Sa and L. P. Csernai，Vorticity and polarization in the microscopic transport model PACIAE，Physical Review C 104, 054903 (2021).
11. Y. L. Xie, D. J. Wang and L. P. Csernai，Fluid dynamics study of the Lambda polarization for Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV, European Physical Journal C 39，80 (2020).
12. C. Zhang, L. Zheng, S. S. Shi, Z. W. Lin.Using local scaling of initial condition parameters to improve the system size dependence of transport model description of nuclear collisions. Phys.Rev.C 104 (2021) 1, 014908.
13. C. Zhang, L. Zheng, S. Shi et al. Resolving the RpA and v2 puzzle of D0 mesons in p−Pb collisions at the LHC. Physics Letter B 846 (2023) 138219.
14. N. Chen, Y.-n. Mao, and Z. Teng, Bottom quark and tau lepton masses in a toy SU(6) model, European Physical Journal C 83, 259 (2023). (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
15. N. Chen, Y.-n. Mao, Z. Teng, B. Wang, and X. Zhao, A two-generational SU(7) model with extended weak sector: mass hierarchies, mixings, and the flavor non-universality, Journal of High Energy Physics 04, 056 (2023). (authors are listed in alphabetical order)
16. Peng Lv, Ning Dai, and Qing-Feng Sun, Double refraction and spin splitter in normal-conductor/hexagonal-semiconductor junctions, Phys. Rev. B 97, 235425 .
17. Peng Lv, Yan-Feng Zhou, Ning-Xuan Yang, and Qing-Feng Sun*, Magnetoanisotropic spin-triplet Andreev reflection in ferromagnet-Ising superconductor junctions, Phys. Rev. B 97, 144501 .
18. Peng Lv, Ai-Min Guo, Huaiyu Li, Chunxiao Liu, Xin-Cheng Xie, and Qing-Feng Sun*, Spin-flip reflection at the normal metal-spin superconductor interface, Phys. Rev. B 95, 104516 .
19. Peng Lv, Zhi-qiang Bao, Ai-Min Guo, Xin-Cheng Xie, and Qing-Feng Sun*, Ginzburg-Landau-type theory of nonpolarized spin superconductivity, Phys. Rev. B 95, 014501 .
20. Ning Dai, Yan-Feng Zhou, Peng Lv, and Qing-Feng Sun*, Quantum transport through three-dimensional topological insulator p-n junction under magnetic field, Phys. Rev. B 98, 085422.
21. Qin P, Park H C. Kick-induced rectified current in a symmetric nanoelectromechanical shuttle[J]. Physical Review B, 2021, 104(6): 064303.
22. Qin P, Park H C. Role of chiral symmetry in a kicked Jaynes-Cummings model[J]. Physical Review A, 2023, 107(1): 013712.
23. B. Yang, B. Xiong, Z. L. Liu, and B. Zhang, Exploring the effect of decoherence in a two-dimensional Rydberg system: Application of the time-dependent variational principle, Phys. Rev. A 105, 052225 (2022).
24. B. Yang, B. Xiong, Z. L. Liu, and B. Zhang, Effective fourth-order Lindblad equation for a weakly-coupled dissipative quantum system, Phys. Lett. A 425, 127881 (2022).
25. J. C. Xing, W. K. Bai, B. Xiong, J.-H. Z, and T. Yang, Structure and dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates with vortex phase imprinting, Frontiers of Physics 18, 62302 (2023).
26. B. Xiong, T. Yang，Y.-J. Lin and D.-W. Wang, Controllable splitting dynamics of a doubly quantized vortex in a ring-shaped condensate, J. Phys. B 53, 075301 (2020).
Ⅳ. Contact Information
For academic exchanges, please contact:
Email: kechen.wang@whut.edu.cn (Prof. Kechen Wang)
Office: Room 403, Physics Building, South Lake Campus of WUT
