The theoretical particle physics team comprises 11 faculty members, including one Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and three recipients of National Youth Talent Programs. Their research spans the partonic structure of the proton, the properties of strongly interacting matter, and QCD phase transitions under extreme conditions, alongside emerging fields such as dark matter and gravitational wave physics. The team currently leads several high-level initiatives, including an Innovative Research Group Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and a Major Basic Science Project of Shandong Province.

Publications:

Zuotang Liang (梁作堂)

Spin Alignment of Vector Mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 3, 036004

Relativistic spin dynamics for vector mesons

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 4, 042304

Disentangling covariant Wigner functions for chiral fermions

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 3, 036019

Relativistic Quantum Kinetic Theory for Massive Fermions and Spin Effects

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 5, 056021

Rapidity dependence of global polarization in heavy ion collisions

Published in: Chin.Phys.C 45 (2021) 1, 014102

Dirac sea and chiral anomaly in the quantum kinetic theory

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 9, 096015

Jian Zhou(周剑)

Nucleon Tomography with Zero Jettiness

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 136 (2026) 2, 021901

Novel Azimuthal Observables from Two-Photon Collision at $e^+e^-$ Colliders

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 14, 141901

Probing the Quark Orbital Angular Momentum at Electron-Ion Colliders Using Exclusive $\pi^0$ Production

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 5, 051901

Anisotropy in Dijet Production in Exclusive and Inclusive Processes

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 14, 142001

Momentum Anisotropy of Leptons from Two Photon Processes in Heavy Ion Collisions

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 125 (2020) 23, 232301

Shanshan Cao (曹杉杉)

Flavor Hierarchy of Jet Energy Correlators inside the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 5, 052301

Critical Opalescence and Its Impact on the Jet Quenching Parameter

Published in: Chin.Phys.Lett. 41 (2024) 3, 031202

Medium modification of γ-jet fragmentation functions in Pb+Pb collisions at LHC

Published in: Phys.Lett.B 810 (2020) 135783

Hong Zhang(张宏)

Colloquium : The physics of axion stars

Published in: Rev.Mod.Phys. 91 (2019) 4, 041002

Axion Stars

Published in: Symmetry 12 (2019) 1, 25

Classical Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories for a Real Scalar Field

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 98 (2018) 9, 096012

Improved analytic solution of black hole superradiance

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 6, 064016

Zero-range effective field theory for resonant wino dark matter. Part III. Annihilation effects

Published in: JHEP 05 (2018) 062

Tianbo Liu(刘天博)

Suppression of Spin Transfer to Λ Hyperon in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 23, 231901

First Extraction of Transverse-Momentum Dependent Helicity Distributions

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 12, 121902

QCD Running Coupling in the Nonperturbative and Near-Perturbative Regimes

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 18, 181901

Simulation of electron-proton scattering events by a Feature-Augmented and Transformed Generative Adversarial Network (FAT-GAN)

Included in: Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Published: Jan 29, 2020

Unified Description of Polarized and Unpolarized Quark Distributions in the Proton

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) 8, 082003

Published: Feb 27, 2020

Shuyi Wei(魏树一)

Pursuing the Precision Study for Color Glass Condensate in Forward Hadron Productions

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 128 (2022) 20, 202302

Elliptic Flow of Heavy Quarkonia in pA Collisions

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 122 (2019) 17, 172302

On the Dihadron Angular Correlations in Forward pA collisions

Published in: Phys.Lett.B 784 (2018) 301-306

Published: Sep 10, 2018

Yajin Zhou(周雅瑾)

Suppression of Spin Transfer to Λ Hyperon in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 23, 231901

Novel Azimuthal Observables from Two-Photon Collision at e⁺e^-Colliders

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 14, 141901

Impact parameter dependence of the azimuthal asymmetry in lepton pair production in heavy ion collisions

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 3, 034015

Probing the linear polarization of photons in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions

Published in: Phys.Lett.B 795 (2019) 576-580

Jian Deng(邓建)

Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of Λ, Λ^ˉ, K^±, K_s⁰and ϕ in Au+Au Collisions

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 120 (2018) 6, 062301

Published: Feb 7, 2018

Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in Au+Au Collisions at

= 7.7, 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV

Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 3, 032301

Published: Jul 20, 2018

Hui Dong(董辉)

Dihadron helicity correlation in photon-nucleus collisions

Published in:Phys. Rev. D 110, 056040

Published: 18 September, 2024

Sea quark Sivers distribution

Published in:Physics Letters B

Published: 10 January, 2019

Shoushan Bao(鲍守山)

CEPC Technical Design Report: Accelerator

Published in: Radiat.Detect.Technol.Methods 8 (2024) 1, 1-1105

Subdominant modes of the scalar superradiant instability and gravitational wave beats

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 7, 075009

Next-to-leading-order solution to Kerr-Newman black hole superradiance

Published in: Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 6, 064037

Contact Person： Sen Cao   Email:  sencao@sdu.edu.cn