Nuclear Group:
Experimental Faculty: 4
Theoretical Faculty: 1
Postdoctors/Research Fellows: 2
Graduate Students:
Female Students
11
2
Median Time to PhD:
5 years
Application deadline:
January 1st to be considered for fellowships
General university, and admissions information: http://wayne.edu/
Application site: http://apply.wayne.edu
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Departmental web site: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/physics
Nuclear Group Website: http://rhig.physics.wayne.edu
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Contact in Nuclear Physics:
Prof. Claude Pruneau
(313) 577-1813 claude.pruneau@wayne.edu

Members of our group have continuing involvement in relativistic heavy ion experiments at Brookhaven National
Laboratory and CERN. They were involved in BNL-AGS experiments E814, E877, E864, E896, E941, and CERN experiment NA49 now completed. Members of the group currently participate in the STAR experiment at
Brookhaven National Laboratory, as well as the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collides, and carry theoretical calculations to interpret the data measured by
STAR and ALICE. The primary physics goal of these two experiments is to study the formation and characteristics of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of matter that exists at extremely high temperature and density. Study of the QGP enables a better understanding of the basic constituents of matter and the state of the universe moments after the Big Bang. It is produced via collisions of heavy nuclei, and studied with large detectors that enable measurements of the many thousands of particles produced in these collisions .
The Star Experiment is in operation at the Relativisitc heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). As a technical contribution to this experiment, the group has taken responsibility for the construction of a vertex tracker (SVT), a large
Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMC), and the implementation of an integrated tracker reconstruction software (ITTF).
The ALICE Collaboration operates a dedicated heavy-ion detector to exploit the unique physics potential of nucleusnucleus interactions at LHC energies. The ALICE - USA collaboration contributes to the ALICE experiment with the construction of a large electromagnetic calorimeter
(EMcal). The EMcal and other ALICE detectors shall enable the study of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma, is expected.
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