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Zoltan Fodor

Zoltan Fodor — Professor — Faculty
Office: 336 Davey Laboratory
Address: 0104 Davey Laboratory University Park, PA 16802 US
zxf5098@psu.edu
+1 814 865 7533
Zoltan Fodor
Physics CFT CMA

Prof. Zoltan Fodor received his PhD from the Eotvos Lorand University Budapest. His early career included several years of research at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), DESY (Hamburg, Germany), KEK (Tsukuba, Japan) and Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary). In 1998 he became a professor at the Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary. In 2003 he moved to the University of Wuppertal, Germany. In 2020 he joined the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Since 2005 he has been the spokesperson of the Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal (BMW) Collaboration.

Publications
  1. Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Matteo Giordano, Sandor Katz, Daniel Nogradi, Attila Pasztor, Chik Wong “Lattice simulations of the QCD chiral transition at real baryon density.” Phys. Rev. D 105 5 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L051506
  2. Rene Bellwied, Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Jana Guenther, Sandor Katz, Paolo Parotto, Attila Pasztor, David Pesznyak, Claudia Ratti, Kalman Szabo “Corrections to the hadron resonance gas from lattice QCD and their effect on fluctuation-ratios at finite density.” Phys. Rev. D 104 9 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.094508
  3. Sz. Borsanyi, others “Leading hadronic contribution to the muon magnetic moment from lattice QCD.” Nature 593 7857 (2021) doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03418-1
  4. S. Borsányi, Z. Fodor, J. Guenther, R. Kara, S. Katz, P. Parotto, A. Pásztor, C. Ratti, K. Szabó “Lattice QCD equation of state at finite chemical potential from an alternative expansion scheme.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 23 (2021) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.232001
  5. Szabolcs Borsanyi, Zoltan Fodor, Jana Guenther, Ruben Kara, Sandor Katz, Paolo Parotto, Attila Pasztor, Claudia Ratti, Kalman Szabo “QCD Crossover at Finite Chemical Potential from Lattice Simulations.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 5 (2020) doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.052001

Zoltan Fodor's research group

Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Alexander Chasteen Alexander Chasteen Graduate Student Physics adc6103@psu.edu Na Desk 4 Whitmore Laboratory CFT Mathematical Structures
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