GUNJI Taku

Professor

Quark Nuclear Science Institute, Graduate School of Science

Current Research

We aim to establish a unified understanding of QCD matter across multiple hierarchical scales, from quarks and gluons to nucleons and atomic nuclei. This research explores how emergent properties—such as the origin of nucleon mass and spin, quark confinement, and collective phenomena of quarks, gluons, and nucleons—arise across a wide range of energy scales. By integrating precision studies of partonic structures in nucleons and nuclei at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with investigations of hot and dense QCD matter in high-energy heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, we seek to bridge the microscopic dynamics of quarks and gluons with the macroscopic properties of nuclear matter.

Keywords

Quark and Gluon, QCD, EIC, LHC