Research
 

Research

Together with my adviser Scott Pratt I am working at MSU/ NSCL on modeling relativistic heavy ion collisions for my Ph.D. thesis. We hope to apply our results to experimental data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) on Long Island.

RHIC Transport Theory Collaboration (RTTC)

The RTTC Collaboration consists of theoretical physicists from ten institutions in North America. The goals of the collaboration are to develop open-source transport codes for the purpose of interpreting data from RHIC.

My work in the collaboration involves designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining a general and modular Boltzmann transport package (a.k.a. GROMIT). It works with both hadronic and partonic degrees of freedom and can employ a manifestly boost invariant collision formalism.

Publications

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  1. Quantum Corrections for Pion Correlations Involving Resonance Decays,
    S. Cheng and S. Pratt,
    Phys. Rev. C 63, 054904 (2001), nucl-th/0009003 [local PDF]

  2. The Effect of Finite Range Interactions in Classical Transport Theory,
    S. Cheng, S. Pratt, P. Csizmadia, Y. Nara, D. Molnar, M. Gyulassy, S. E. Vance, B. Zhang,
    Phys. Rev. C 65, 024901 (2002), nucl-th/0107001 [local PDF]

  3. Statistical Physics in a Finite Volume with Absolute Conservation Laws,
    to appear in proceedings of 18th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, nucl-th/0203027 [local ps]

  4. Isospin Fluctuations from a Thermally Equilibrated Hadron Gas
    submitted to Physical Review C, nucl-th/0207051 [local ps]

Selected Presentations

  1. Studying QCD with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
    Invited colloquium, York University, Toronto, Canada, April 2002, [slides]

  2. Studying the Strong Force with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
    Invited talk, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, February 2002

  3. Statistical Physics in a Finite Volume with Absolute Conservation Laws,
    18th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Nassau, Bahamas, January 2002, [online proceedings, ps]
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