ABOUT RHIG
Relativistic heavy ion physics is of international and interdisciplinary interest to nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. The primary goal of this field of research is to recreate in the laboratory a new state of matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics (Quantum Chromodynamics) to have existed ten millionths of a second after the Big Bang (origin of the Universe) and may exist in the cores of very dense stars.
The research activities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group at Yale are centered at Yale, but involve experimental research on the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island, New York, and on the ALICE experiment with heavy ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Both experiments seek to form and investigate hot, dense QCD matter (the QGP) at several trillion degrees absolute temperature (Kelvin). (SEE RHIG RESEARCH for more information.)
and Collaborators
- Transverse Momentum Distribution and Nuclear Modification Factor
of Charge Particles in p + Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV
(ALICE Collaboration) - Pseudorapidity Density of Charged Particles in
p + Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV
(ALICE Collaboration) - Long-range Angular Correlations on the Near and Away Side in p–Pb Collisions at
NN= 5.02 TeV
(ALICE Collaboration) - Measurement of the Inclusive Differential Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 2.76 TeV
(ALICE Collaboration) - Harmonic Decomposition of Two Particle Angular Correlations in Pb–Pb Collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV (ALICE Collaboration)
- Calculating Jet vn and the Event Plane in the Presence of a Jet
- Jet-Hadron Correlations in √sNN = 200 GeV Au+Au and p+p Collisions (STAR Collaboration)