About Me

Education:
Ph.D. in Physics 1987 (Univ. of Bari (Italy), advisor G. Preparata)
M.Sc. in Physics 1982 (Univ. of Bari (Italy), advisor G. Preparata)

Research Interests:
Lattice QCD, Quantum Computing

Publications:
List of publications on InspireHep

Research


Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory which describes the interactions of quarks and gluons and how they bind together to form the hadrons we see in experiments. The study of many aspects of QCD needs a non-perturbative approach: Lattice QCD allows to address many of these aspects from first principles. My research subjects are related to the investigation of the QCD vacuum state and the QCD phase diagram, with a particular emphasis to the dynamics of color confinement-deconfinement mechanism. In recent years the study of the curvature of the QCD phase diagram at finite temperature and chemical potential has been addressed [see here and references therein ], as well the study of flux tube configurations produced by a quark-antiquark pair in QCD [see here and references therein].

Community

Teaching:
Lectures on "Introduction to Lattice QCD" (PhD school in Physics - Univ. of Bari)

Contact

Email:
leonardo.cosmai@ba.infn.it

Address:
INFN - Sezione di Bari
Via E. Orabona, 4 - 70125 Bari - Italy