Kaon and Lambda Production at Intermediate Momentum

ISBN-13: 9783838398785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 108 str.

Paul Sorensen

Opis

In this work Paul Sorensen has analyzed the production of mesons and baryons in heavy-ion collisions at Brookhavens Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). In 2005, physicists at RHIC created the most perfect fluid in nature, called quark-gluon plasma, a hot, dense matter formed out of quarks and gluons that permeated the universe one microsecond after its birth. Sorensens work plays a key role in elucidating that the flow of matter in the heavy-ion collisions is dominated by subatomic particles called quarks, indicating that quark-gluon plasma had been created. Sorensens work helped discover quark number scaling in the elliptic flow of hadrons in nucleus-nucleus collisions, and he develops the interpretation showing the relevance of quark degrees of freedom in heavy ion interactions.

O autorze

Paul Sorensen was raised in the small town of Corbett Oregon. He earned a B.S. in Physics at the U. of Nebraska and a PhD from UCLA. His thesis won the RHIC and AGS thesis award. He was a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven National Lab. He has also won the APS Valley Prize and the Presidential Early Career Award.