NKFIH/OTKA K147557, 48 MHUF, Principal Investigator, 2024 – 
Datataking in the CMS experiment in Run3 and analysis of ATLAS, CMS and TOTEM results
In Hungary, the experimental group of the PI achieved a milestone step, controlling remotely the data taking process of the CMS experiment at CERN. CMS is a big experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, at its Point 5 in France, built as a collaboration of nearly 5000 scientists and engineers. Still it lacks currently manpower to take and analyze data. We will contribute significantly to these efforts and also deepen our understanding of high energy particle and nuclear physics by investigating the properties of Odderon exchange, expected for nearly 50 years but discovered only in 2021.

NKFIH/OTKA K133046, 48 MHUF, Principal Investigator, 2020- 2024
Discovering the vector and tensor glueballs at CERN LHC with the TOTEM and CMS experiments
Our research is the discovery of the smallest geometrical structures (rings and balls), that have ever been created by humans: their length scales are as small as one meter per one million per one million per one thousand. We aim to discover these new states within QCD, the theory the strong interactions, in its new domain, that has not yet been explored experimentally so far. We have never been able to discover before composite, strongly interactive particles that consists of gluons only, but lack valence quarks or antiquarks, but by now we started the publications of a series of four TOTEM manuscripts that present conditional evidence for this discovery. The discovery of the Odderon implies that a fundamental symmetry, the crossing symmetry between proton-proton and proton- antiproton elastic collisions is violated at LHC energies. It also implies that several quarkless bound states called glueballs have to exist, and are accessable to the TOTEM and CMS experiments, in particular to the Precision Proton Spectrometer project of CMS.

NKFIH/OTKA NK101438, 96 MHUF, Principal Investigator, 2012- 2015
Search for the critical point and for a new domain of QCD in PHENIX at RHIC and in TOTEM at LHC
We aim at localizing the critical point of QCD with the help of critical opalescence, a phenomena well known in physical chemistry. To be able to apply this technique we plan to utilize a new definition of optical opacity, introduced recently by the Pricipal Investigator for an analysis of RHIC data. After localizing the QCD critical point we plan to charactize its universality class with a set of critical exponents. In particular, our interest lies in the determination of the critical exponent of the correlation funcion, where earlier experience of our group can be well utilized, in terms of an analysis utilizing Lévy stable distributions.