Biography
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1974, University of California, Berkeley
RESEARCH:
I am the Principal Investigator of the nuclear theory group in the
Department. Our group focuses on research of physics of ultra-dense
nuclear matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). Ongoing high energy
heavy ion experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC at BNL
and the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN require the development of
new theoretical tools based on Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) and
recently gravity dual (AdS/CFT) holographic models to predict signatures
of novel strongly interaction matter physics. We develop numerical
techniques to solve ultra-relativistic quark gluon transport and
hydrodynamic equations in order to extract equation of state information
from bulk collective (elliptic) flow observed at RHIC and LHC. We
continue work on the theory of jet tomography for very short wavelength
observables of Quark Gluon Plasmas physics. Our tomographic analysis of
the jet quenching pattern measured in 200 GeV/nucleon Au+Au reactions
revealed that quark gluon densities in excess of 100 times greater than
in the cores of neutron stars and temperatures in excess of 2 trillion K
(200 MeV) are routinely produced at RHIC and LHC. Recent we also began
to develop string theory inspired higher dimensional gravity dual models
to predict properties of super-strongly coupled super-symmetric plasmas
that are interesting (gedanken) theoretical cousins of QCD plasmas.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
For a complete listing of publications see SPIRES.
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