Nice news articles by the CMS collaboration highlighting work by Parker and Austin: https://cms.cern/news/big-bang-quantum-quark
1st international workshop on the muon-ion collider held at Rice!
The inaugural International Workshop on the Muon-Ion Collider took place at Rice University from December 13 to 15, 2023. Scientists from diverse disciplines, including particle physics, nuclear physics, and accelerator science, gathered together to explore innovative approaches for advancing the frontiers of high-energy physics utilizing muon beams. We welcome ambitious individuals to join our collaborative efforts. This is our muon shot! Check out the program details at indico.
Congratulations to Dr. Yousen Zhang!
Congratulations to Dr. Yousen Zhang, who has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Studies of Quark-Gluon Plasma via dynamics and productions of heavy quarks in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions at the LHC with CMS detector” on August 24, 2023. Yousen’s thesis represents exciting results from the CMS experiments published in three journal articles, as well as his work on science cases of the CMS endcap timing layer upgrade project.
Yousen will join the BNL neutrino physics group next for his postdoc research. Congratulations and wish Yousen all the best for his new endeavors!
Farewell to Austin!
Dr. Austin Baty has left the group and joined the faculty of University of Illinois Chicago as an assistant professor to start his own group. Best wishes to Austin for a wonderful future career!
Welcome Nicole!
We welcome Nicole Lewis to join the group as a Rice Academy Junior Fellow. Nicole will study the physics of photonuclear interactions at highest energies achieved at the LHC, and also contribute to the construction of the endcap timing layer for the future high-luminosity LHC program.
New findings on the QCD collectivity from a “single parton” at Initial Stages 2023!
The Rice group has presented exciting new results from the CMS experiment at the last week’s Initial Stages 2023 conference.
The highlight of the conference is the observation of QCD collective effects emerging in a system as small as a “single parton” in the vacuum, measured by rare high-multiplicity jets in pp collisions with the CMS experiment, as reported by Parker. The key concept was first proposed in an earlier paper published in Phys. Rev. C. We expect a lot of exciting discussions and follow-up studies for years to come. Read HIN-21-013 for more details of the data analysis.
JiaZhao has presented his result on the coherent J/ψ production in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions, which shows a surprising trend on how gluons inside Pb nuclei behave as Bjorken x->0. Currently, no theoretical models can describe the experimental observation. The paper has been submitted for publication: arXiv:2303.17532.
New results highlighted at Hard Probes and DIS 2023!
The Rice group has presented exciting new results from the CMS experiment at this week’s Hard Probes and DIS 2023 conferences.
On the first day of Hard Probe 2023, Austin has given a plenary talk on the latest experimental status of electroweak probes, summarizing exciting recent results in the field.
The new result on the coherent J/ψ production in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions, led by JiaZhao and Zaochen, has shown a surprising trend on how gluons inside Pb nuclei behave as Bjorken x->0 and is a highlight of the conferences. The paper has been submitted for publication: arXiv:2303.17532.
Yousen has presented new result on the multiplicity dependence of charm baryon to meson production in proton-lead collisions. Surprisingly, no strong dependence in the charm sector is observed, as opposed to strong enhancement seen in the light flavor sector, which has been interpreted as the effect of a quark-gluon medium.
