Irfu research themes

Irfu conducts fundamental research, mainly experimental but also theoretical, on nucleons and nuclei, elementary bricks of matter whose cohesion is ensured by strong interaction. Strong interaction occurs at two successive scales. The first is the assembly of quarks and gluons, whether deconfined in plasma or bound in the nucleon and other hadrons. The second concerns the nucleon assemblies which constitute the nuclei of the different atoms. ...

Nuclear reaction dynamics

Quark-gluon plasma

Atomic nucleus

Quarks and gluons hadron structure

Institute of research into the fundamental laws of the Universe

Fundamental Research Division