Students Complete Ph.Ds on RHIC Experiments
By Richard Seto and Helen Caines
In future issues, we hope to regularly report on students who
have completed their doctorates on RHIC experiments, but the
last year has produced a bumper crop of Ph.D. theses on the RHIC
experiments. There are so many that it's impossible to report on
them all in the space available to us, but we'd like to
congratulate them all on the advances they have made in RHIC
science.
STAR Experiment
Haidong Liu
Advisor: Hongfang Chen
Institution: University of Science and Technology of China,
China
Thesis: Production of Meson, Baryon and Light Nuclei (A=2,3):
Investigating Freeze-Out Dynamics and Roles of Energetic Quarks
and Gluons in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC
Yifei Zhang
Advisor: Hongfang Chen
Institution: University of Science and Technology of China,
China
Thesis: Measurement of Charm Production Cross-Section and
Leptons From Its Semileptonic Decay at RHIC
Raghunath Sahoo
Advisor: D.P.Mahapatra
Institution: Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
Thesis: Transverse Energy Measurement and Fluctuation Studies
in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Xiaoyan Lin
Advisor: Feng Liu
Institution: Institute of Particle Physics, China
Thesis: Non-Photonic Electron Angular Corrections with
Charged Hadrons From the STAR Experiment: First Measurement of
Bottom Contribution to Non-Photonic Electrons at RHIC
Yan Lu
Advisor: Feng Liu
Institution: Institute of Particle Physics, China
Thesis: Centrality Dependence of K0s and Lambda Elliptic Flow
in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200GeV
Betty Abelev
Advisor: John Harris
Institution: Yale University, United States
Thesis: Multi-Strange Baryon Correlations at RHIC
Guoliang Ma
Advisor: Yu-Gang Ma
Institution: Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, China
Thesis: Properties of φ Meson and Experimental
Observables of QGP Phase Transition in Relativistic Heavy ion
Collisions
Sadhana Das
Advisor: D.P. Mahapatra
Institution: Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
Thesis: System Size Dependence of K* Production at RHIC
Sarah Blyth
Advisor: Jean Cleymans
Institution: University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thesis: Using the Phi Meson to Probe the Medium Created in Au+Au
Collisions at RHIC
Mark Horner
Jean Cleymans
Institution: University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thesis: Systematic Studies of Low and Intermediate-pT Correlated
Angular Distributions in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200
GeV from the STAR Experiment
PHENIX Experiment
Raul Armendariz
Advisor: Steve Pate
Institution: New Mexico State University, United States
Thesis: Transverse-Energy Production and Fluctuations Over
Centrality and Acceptance in Relativistic Heavy-Ion and
Nucleon-Nucleon Collisions: Quark versus Nucleon Interactions
and a Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Mate Csanad
Advisor: Tamas Csorgo
Institution: ELTE University, Hungary
Thesis: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC - with Focus on
Non-Central Collisions
Alan Dion
Advisor: Axel Drees
Institution: Stony Brook University, United States
Thesis: Heavy Flavor Production
Yoshi Fukao
Advisor: Naohito Saito
Institution: Kyoto University, Japan
Thesis: Double Spin Asymmetry in Pi0 Production in p+p
Collisions
Taku Gunji
Advisor: Hideki Hamagaki
Institution: University of Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: J/psi Production in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions
at RHIC
Ahmed Hadj Henni
Advisor: Hugues Delagrange
Institution: SUBATECH, France
Thesis: Isolation des Photons de Grande Impusion Transverse
Dans les Collisions Proton+Proton à 200 GeV dans l'expérience
PHENIX au RHIC
TadaAki Isobe
Advisor: Hideki Hamagaki
Institution: University of Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: Production of Direct Photons and Neutral Pions in
Relativistic Au + Au Collisions
Jiamin Jin
Advisor: Brian Cole
Institution: Columbia University, United States
Thesis: Direct Photon Jet Physics in 200GeV/c Au+Au
Collisions
Fukutaro Kajihara
Advisor: Hideki Hamagaki
Institution: University of Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: Measurement of Single Electrons From Semi-Leptonic
Decay of Heavy Quarks in Au + Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ =
200~GeV
Soichiro Kametani
Advisor: Hideki Hamagaki
Institution: University of Tokyo, Japan
Thesis: Measurement of J/psi Yield in d+Au Collisions at s(NN)(1/2)
= 200 GeV
Alexander Kozlov
Advisor: Itzhak Tserruya
Institution: Weizmann Institute, Israel
Thesis: Phi Meson Production in d+Au and Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
Using the PHENIX Detector at RHIC
WooJin Park
Advisor: Byungsik Hong
Institution: Korea University, Republic of Korea
Thesis: Nuclear Modification Factor of Light Hadrons at
Forward Rapidities in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV
Andry Rakotozafindrabe
Advisor: Frederic Fleuret
Institution: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Thesis: J/psi -> mu+mu- in Cu+Cu Collisions at 200 GeV
Shingo Sakai
Advisor: Yasuo Miake
Institution: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Thesis: Measurement of Eectron Azimuthal Anisotropy and
Implications of Heavy Quark Flow in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$
= 200 GeV
Andras Ster
Advisor: Tamas Csorgo
Institution: MTA KFKI RMKI, Hungary
Thesis: Showers of Forward Scattered Particles in the PHENIX
Zero Degree Calorimeter and a Hydrodynamical Description of
Central Heavy Ion Collisions
BRAHMS Experiment
Catalin Ristea
Advisor: Jens Jorgen Gardhoje
Institution: Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
Thesis: The Rapidity Dependence of High pt Suppression in
Au+Au Collisions at BRAHMS Experiment
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
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