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Yacine Mehtar Tani

Senior Scientist, Nuclear Theory, Physics Department

Yacine Mehtar Tani

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

(631) 344-6117
mehtartani@bnl.gov

My research interests focus on Quantum-Chromodynamcis (QCD) at high energy and high density. I am in particular interested in understanding how QCD jets, as coherent quantum systems produced in high energy collisions, behave in the presence of hot QCD matter. The goal is to gain insight on the non-equilibrium QCD dynamics and probe the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this context,  I have been investigating recently novel emergent phenomena in such open quantum systems, namely, turbulent energy loss, non-local anomalous diffusion and color decoherence. These phenomena may be probed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. 

I am also interested in the structure of the proton and nuclei at high energy  characterized by a dense and coherent system of gluons. An outstanding question I am investigating is how the transition from a weakly interacting system of partons to saturated matter of soft gluons takes place. Probing this new regime of QCD is one of the main objectives of the future EIC. 

Education | Appointments | Publications

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Paris 11, Orsay, France, November 2006
  • M.S. Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, June 2003 
  • B.S. University of Tlemcen, Algeria, June 2002

Professional Appointments

Faculty appointments: 
  • January 2023 - present : Senior Scientist, BNL
  • January 2020 - present: RBRC Fellow, BNL
  • Ocober 2020 - December 2022 : Scientist, BNL
  • July 2018 - September 2020: Associate Scientist, BNL

  • Nov. 2014 – Jun. 2018: Research Assistant Professor/INT Fellow, Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Postoctoral appointments 

  • Dec. 2011 – Oct. 2014: Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), CEA, Saclay, France

  • Jan. 2010 – Nov. 2011: Department of Particle Physics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  • Oct. 2007 – Dec. 2009: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

  • Jan. 2007 – Sep. 2007: ECT*, Trento, Italy

Selected Publications

  • Caucal P, Mehtar-Tani Y (2022) Anomalous diffusion in QCD matter. Physical Review D 106:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.l051501
  • Boussarie R, Mehtar-Tani Y (2022) Gluon-mediated inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering from Regge to Bjorken kinematics. Journal of High Energy Physics 2022:. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2022)080
  • Mehtar-Tani Y, Soto-Ontoso A, Tywoniuk K (2020) Dynamical grooming of QCD jets. Physical Review D 101:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.034004
  • Blaizot J-P, Mehtar-Tani Y (2014) Renormalization of the jet-quenching parameter. Nuclear Physics A 929:202–229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2014.05.018
  • Blaizot J-P, Iancu E, Mehtar-Tani Y (2013) Medium-Induced QCD Cascade: Democratic Branching and Wave Turbulence. Physical Review Letters 111:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.052001
Yacine Mehtar Tani

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

(631) 344-6117
mehtartani@bnl.gov

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