Thesis Award Participants 2007

2007 Thesis Award Winners

• Hiromi Okada - “Measurement of the Analyzing Power A_N in pp Elastic Scattering in the CNI Region with a Polarized Atomic Hydrogen Gas Jet Target”
• Corey Reed - “Studies of Nucleon-Gold Collisions at 200 GeV per Nucleon Pair Using Tagged d+Au Interactions”

Honorable Mention

• Nathan Grau - “Systematic study of high-pT di-jet correlations in nuclear collisions with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC”
• Taku Gunji - “J/psi Production in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC”
• Sevil Salur - “Investigation of Hadronic Resonances with STAR”

Thesis Award Competition Participants

• Raul Armendariz - “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”
• Joshua Hamblen - “Pseudorapidity Dependence of Directed and Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV per Nucleon Pair”
• Takuma Horaguchi - “Prompt Photon Production in proton-proton collisions at \sqrt{s}=200GeV”
• Andras Ster - "Showers of forward scattered particles in the PHENIX Zero Degree Calorimeter and a hydrodynamical description of central heavy ion collisions"
• Shingo Sakai - “Measurement of electron azimuthal anisotropy and implications of heavy quark flow in Au+Au collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV”

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