Adam Takacs

Postdoc in Physics

Institute for Theoretical Physics,

Heidelberg University

About Me

I am a Postdoc researcher in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Heidelberg University in Germany. My work focuses on various questions related to particle collisions at the CERN-LHC and BNL-RHIC experiments. My research focuses on the description of particle collisions using Quantum Chromodynamics, jets, finite-temperature, and non-equilibrium field theories. I contribute to several ongoing measurements by providing predictions and introducing new techniques such as artificial intelligence.

Interests

High-energy heavy-ion collisions
QCD and jets
Non-equilibrium QFT
Artificial Intelligence

Education

PhD. in physics, 2023
University of Bergen, Norway
MSc. in physics, 2018
Eotvos University Budapest, Hungary

Featured Publications

Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas

This work derives the parton shower implementation of linearized Boltzmann equations. We also implement a simplified version of the high-temperature effective kinetic theory to show that the new parton shower algorithm thermalizes for late evolution times.

Oct 31, 2025

Minijet thermalization and jet transport coefficients in QCD kinetic theory

This work studies various jet transport coefficients in the quark-gluon plasma using the high-temperature kinetic theory. We show that the leading-order formulas agree well with the single collision limit of the Boltzmann equation.

Oct 30, 2025

Bayesian Constraints on Pre-Equilibrium Jet Quenching and Predictions for Oxygen Collisions

We present a novel framework that can simultaneously describe jet and high-momentum hadron measurements both at LHC and RHIC. It also provides a good description of elliptic flows, and implements pre-equilibrium energy loss using the hydrodynamic attractor. We used this framework to predict various measurments for the recent Oxygen-Oxygen collision.

Sep 23, 2025

High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds

We present a ML powered code that performs unfolding in large backgrounds. We show, high dimensional unfolding significantly improves performance. Our new technique overcomes the performance limitation encoded in routins such as JER and JES.

Jul 8, 2025

No-quenching baseline for energy loss signals in oxygen-oxygen collisions

We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) baseline for energy loss signals in the upcoming oxygen-oxygen (OO) collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our analysis includes several potential observables, such as the jet nuclear modification factor and the semi-inclusive jet-hadron nuclear modification factor. Our aim is to advance the potential for experimental detection of energy loss signals in OO collisions.

Oct 29, 2024

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Recent Publications

Ismail Soudi, Adam Takacs (2025). Deriving a parton shower for jet thermalization in QCD plasmas. arXiv:2510.25837.

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Kirill Boguslavski, Florian Lindenbauer, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Adam Takacs, Fabian Zhou (2025). Minijet thermalization and jet transport coefficients in QCD kinetic theory. arXiv:2510.25669 [hep-ph].

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Daniel Pablos, Adam Takacs (2025). Bayesian Constraints on Pre-Equilibrium Jet Quenching and Predictions for Oxygen Collisions. arXiv:2509.19430.

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Alexandre Falcão, Adam Takacs (2025). High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds. arXiv:2507.06291.

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Jannis Gebhard, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Adam Takacs (2024). No-quenching baseline for energy loss signals in oxygen-oxygen collisions. 2410.22405.

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Recent Talks

Adam Takacs (2025). Advancing the Theory of Jet Modification in the Quark–Gluon Plasma. invited seminar Nuclear Physics Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US.

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Adam Takacs (2025). Jet quenching in OO collision. invited talk APS Division of Nuclear Physics Workshop, Chicago, US.

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Adam Takacs (2025). The Imprint of Preequilibrium in Jet Flow and Suppression. talk at Initial Stages, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Adam Takacs (2025). High-Dimensional Unfolding in Large Backgrounds. invited talk at Precision Frontier of QCD Matter, Wuhan, China.

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Adam Takacs (2025). Jet Elliptic Anisotropy and Suppression in PbPb, AuAu and OO. talk at Quark Matter Frankfurt, Germany.

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