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Kin Yip

Physicist, PHENIX, Physics Department

Kin Yip

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-216
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-4116
(631) 461-5703
kinyip@bnl.gov

I've been trained as an Experimental Particle / High Energy Physicist since 1993 but have since diverged into various different tasks and works.

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards | Certifications


Expertise

Radiation and shielding simulation (MCNPX/MCNP6)

Operation of the data acquisition (DAQ) system of the CNI polarimetry for the AGS and its related physics data analysis

Research Activities

Delphi

Dzero

US Atlas

pp2pp

Daya Bay

STAR

sPHENIX

Education

University of Oxford, DPhil (1996)

University of Hong Kong, B.Sc. (1992)

Professional Appointments

Director of Operations, sPHENIX

Radiation Safety Committee Chair

sPHENIX Level 2 Manager (Superconducting Magnet)

Selected Publications

  • Adamczyk L, Agakishiev G, Aggarwal MM, Ahammed Z, Alakhverdyants AV, et al. (2013) Single spin asymmetry AN in polarized proton–proton elastic scattering at s=200 GeV. Physics Letters B 719:62–69. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.014
  • Nakagawa I, Alekseev I, Bazilevsky A, Bravar A, Bunce G, Dhawan S, Eyser KO, Gill R, Haeberli W, Huang H, Makdisi Y, Nass A, Okada H, Stephenson E, Svirida DN, Wise T, Wood J, Yip K, Zelenski A (2008) RHIC polarimetry. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 162:259–265. doi: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00801-1
  • Abazov VM, Abbott B, Abolins M, Acharya BS, Adams M, et al. (2007) Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in theBs0System. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.121801
  • Assmann et al. R (1999) Calibration of centre-of-mass energies at LEP1 for precise measurements of Z properties. The European Physical Journal C 6:187–223. doi: 10.1007/s100529801030
  • Yip K, Tam KY, Yiu KFC (1997) An Efficient Method of Determining Diffusion Coefficients Using Eigenfunction Expansions. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 37:367–371. doi: 10.1021/ci9604652

Awards & Recognition

2018:               Shared the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award (DOE)

2016:               Shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

Certifications

MCNPX Introductory Workshop, Orlando, Florida, USA, Feb. 24-28, 2003.

Kin Yip

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-216
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-4116
(631) 461-5703
kinyip@bnl.gov

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