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Bjoern Schenke

Distinguished Scientist, Nuclear Theory, Physics Department

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physics Department
Bldg. 510A, Room 2-26
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-5805
bschenke@bnl.gov

Bjoern is working on the theory of nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and density and nuclei at high energy.

He studies many-body quantum chromo dynamics in the high energy limit, computing for example the evolution of Wilson line correlators with changing gluon momentum fraction x in hadrons. This evolution is governed by renormalization group equations within the color-glass-condensate effective theory. The solutions to these equations allow for the computation of a wide range of multi-particle final states in deeply inelastic scattering and hadronic collisions at e.g. RHIC, LHC and a future electron-ion collider (EIC), offering insight into the properties of hadronic matter at high energy and in particular gluon saturation.

Bjoern also works on relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations of heavy-ion collisions aimed at revealing the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The MUSIC code is one ever evolving result of that research. He has also worked on describing the initial state in heavy ion collisions based on first principles calculations at high energy. This has resulted in the IP-Glasma model and its many applications and extensions.

Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights | Awards

Education

Ph.D. (Dr. phil. nat., summa cum laude), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Graduation date: July 3rd 2008
• Advisor: Professor Dr. Carsten Greiner
• Thesis: “Collective Phenomena in the Non-Equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma"

Professional Appointments

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
Distinguished Scientist January 2024 - present
Scientist/Senior Scientist   October 2017 – December 2023 (tenure since December 2017)
Associate Scientist   July 2014 – September 2017
Assistant Scientist October 2013 – June 2014
Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow   April 2012 – September 2013
Research Associate December 2010 – March 2012

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Adjunct Professor February 2019 – present

McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellow September 2008 – November 2010

Selected Publications

Mäntysaari H, Schenke B, Shen C, Zhao W (2023) Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider. Physical Review Letters 131:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.131.062301
Ryssens W, Giacalone G, Schenke B, Shen C (2023) Evidence of Hexadecapole Deformation in Uranium-238 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Physical Review Letters 130:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.212302
Giacalone G, Schenke B, Shen C (2022) Constraining the Nucleon Size with Relativistic Nuclear Collisions. Physical Review Letters 128:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.128.042301
Giacalone G, Schenke B, Shen C (2020) Observable Signatures of Initial State Momentum Anisotropies in Nuclear Collisions. Physical Review Letters 125:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.192301
Mäntysaari H, Mueller N, Salazar F, Schenke B (2020) Multigluon Correlations and Evidence of Saturation from Dijet Measurements at an Electron-Ion Collider. Physical Review Letters 124:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.112301
Schenke B, Schlichting S, Tribedy P, Venugopalan R (2016) Mass Ordering of Spectra from Fragmentation of Saturated Gluon States in High-Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions. Physical Review Letters 117:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.162301
Mäntysaari H, Schenke B (2016) Evidence of Strong Proton Shape Fluctuations from Incoherent Diffraction. Physical Review Letters 117:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.052301
Denicol G, Monnai A, Schenke B (2016) Moving Forward to Constrain the Shear Viscosity of QCD Matter. Physical Review Letters 116:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.116.212301
Ryu S, Paquet J-F, Shen C, et al (2015) Importance of the Bulk Viscosity of QCD in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions. Physical Review Letters 115:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.115.132301
Schenke B, Venugopalan R (2014) Eccentric Protons? Sensitivity of Flow to System Size and Shape inp+p,p+Pb, andPb+PbCollisions. Physical Review Letters 113:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.113.102301
Gale C, Jeon S, Schenke B, et al (2013) Event-by-Event Anisotropic Flow in Heavy-ion Collisions from Combined Yang-Mills and Viscous Fluid Dynamics. Physical Review Letters 110:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.012302
Schenke B, Tribedy P, Venugopalan R (2012) Fluctuating Glasma Initial Conditions and Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions. Physical Review Letters 108:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.252301
Schenke B, Jeon S, Gale C (2011) Elliptic and Triangular Flow in Event-by-EventD=3+1Viscous Hydrodynamics. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.042301
Schenke B, Jeon S, Gale C (2010) (3+1)D hydrodynamic simulation of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C 82:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.82.014903