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Thesis Award Participants 2015

2015 Thesis Award Winners

  • Benjamin Bannier- Systematic studies of soft direct photon production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV
  • Evan Sangaline- Ups and Downs with a Bit of Strange: A STAR Analysis of π/K/p Spectra at High in Au+Au Collisions at = 7.7, 11.5,19.6, 27.0, 39.0 and 62.4 GeV and Its Physics Implictions

Honorable Mention

  • Ciprian Gal- Measuring the anti-quark contribution to the proton spin using parity violating W production in polarized proton proton collisions
  • Chun Shen- The standard model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions and electromagnetic tomography
  • Liang Zheng- The study of gluon saturation via dihadron correlations at a future electron-ion Collider

Thesis Award Competition Participants

  • Benjamin Bannier- Systematic studies of soft direct photon production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV  [Thesis]
  • Ciprian Gal- Measuring the anti-quark contribution to the proton spin using parity violating W production in polarized proton proton collisions [Thesis]
  • Sanshiro Mizuno- Measurements of Direct Photon Higher Order Azimuthal Anisotropy in  = 200 GeV Au + Au Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX [Thesis]
  • Alex Mwai- Beam Energy and System-size Dependence of the Space-time Extent of the Pion Emission Source Produced in Heavy-Ion Collisions [Thesis]
  • Sanghwa Park- Measurement of the Single Spin Asymmetry in W Boson Production in Polarized p+p collisions at =510 GeV with the PHENIX Muon Spectrometer [Thesis]
  • Evan Sangaline- Ups and Downs with a Bit of Strange: A STAR Analysis of π/K/p Spectra at High in Au+Au Collisions at = 7.7, 11.5,19.6, 27.0, 39.0 and 62.4 GeV and Its Physics Implictions [Thesis]
  • Chun Shen- The standard model for relativistic heavy-ion collisions and electromagnetic tomography [Thesis]
  • David Tlusty- A Study of Open Charm Production in p+p Collisions at STAR [Thesis]
  • Prithwish Tribedy- Correlation and fluctuation of particle multiplicity in hadronic and heavy ion collisions [Thesis]
  • Chi Yang- Direct virtual photon production in Au+Au collisions at = 200 GeV at RHIC [Thesis]
  • Li Yi- Study Quark Gluon Plasma by Particle Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions [Thesis]

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