Thesis Award Participants 2008

2008 Thesis Award Winners

• Sarah Blyth - “Using the phi-meson to probe the medium created in Au+Au collisions at RHIC”
• Alan Dion - “Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV”
• Benji Lewis - “The Quest for the Rare Decay K+ to pi+ nu nu-bar”

Thesis Award Competition Participants

• Betty I. Bezverkhny Abelev - “Multi-Strange Baryon Correlations at RHIC”
• Yuting Bai - “Anisotropic Flow Measurements in STAR at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider”
• Mate Csanad - “Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC – with Focus on Non-Central Collisions”
• Debasish Das - “Characterization of Heavy Ion Collisions with Photons and Hadrons at RHIC Energies”
• Yoshinori Fukao  - “Double helicity asymmetry for pi0 production in polarized p+p collisions at sqrt{s} = 200GeV: Implications for the polarized gluon distribution in the proton”
• Leon Gaillard  - “A Study of Jets at the STAR Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider via Two-Particle Correlations”
• Oleksandr Grebenyuk - “Neutral meson production in d+Au and p+p collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV in STAR”
• Xiaoyan Lin - “Non-Photonic Electron Angular Correlations with Charged Hadrons from the STAR Experiment: First Measurement of Bottom Contribution to Non-Photonic Electrons at RHIC”
• Fanglei Lin - “Towards full preservation of polarization of proton beam in the AGS”
• Manabu Togawa - “Measurements of the leading neutron production in polarized pp collision at √s=200 GeV”
• Jason Glyndwr Ulery - “Two- and Three-Particle Jet-Like Correlations”
• Andrew James Wroe - “Developments of Microdosimetry and Nanodosimetry for Space & Therapeutic Applications”

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