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PhD Theses from our group

  • Shi, Zhaozhong, “Analysis of Beauty Quark Hadronization in Vacuum and Quark-Gluon Plasma with CMS” 2021. pdf
  • Tatar, Kaya, “Direct measurements of parton shower modification in hot QCD medium using vector boson-tagged jets” 2020. pdf
  • Bi, Ran, “Soft and Hard Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma” 2020. pdf
  • McGinn, Christopher, “Mapping the Redistribution of Jet Energy in PbPb Collisions at the LHC with CMS” 2019. pdf
  • Wang, Jing, “Probing Quark-Gluon Plasma with D mesons” 2019. pdf
  • Baty, Austin, “Study of Parton Energy Loss in Heavy Ion Collisions using Charged Particle Spectra Measured with CMS” 2019. pdf
  • Wang, Ta-Wei, “Probing Quark-Gluon Plasma with Beauty Quarks” 2019. pdf
  • Velicanu, Dragos, “Studies of two particle correlation functions and photon-tagged jet fragmentation in PbPb and pp collisions with CMS at the LHC” 2017. pdf
  • Gulhan, Doga C., “Properties of dijets in pp, pPb and PbPb collisions” 2016. pdf
  • Barbieri, R. Alex, “Characterization of jets in Heavy Ion collisions using photons at the LHC with the CMS detector” 2016. pdf
  • Ma, Frank, “Detailed CHaracterization of Jets in Heavy Ion Collisions Using Jet Fragmentation Functions” 2013. pdf
  • Kim, Yongsun, “Study of Jet Quenching Using gamma-jet Events in Heavy Ion Collisions at 2.76TeV” 2013. pdf
  • Yilmaz, Yetkin, “Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions at LHC with CMS detector” 2013. pdf
  • Vaurynovich, Siarhei, “Measurement of phi meson production in Cu+Cu collisions at 200 GeV using the PHOBOS detector at RHIC” 2012. pdf
  • Yoon, Andre Sungho, “Study of High Transverse Momentum Charged Particle Suppression in Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC” 2012. pdf
  • Lee, Yen-Jie, “Measurement of the charged-hadron multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at LHC with the CMS detector” 2011. pdf
  • Alver, Burak Han, “Measurement of non-flow correlations and elliptic flow fluctuations in Au+Au collisions at RHIC” 2010. pdf
  • Li, Wei, “Clustering phenomena from two-particle angular correlations in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions” 2009. pdf
  • Wenger, Edward, “Studies of high transverse momentum phenomena in heavy ion collisions using the PHOBOS detector” 2008. pdf

Undergraduate Theses from our group

  • Badea, Anthony, “Search for the Production of Quark-Gluon Plasma in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s)=91.2 GeV with Archived ALEPH LEP1 Data” 2019. pdf
  • Chen, Yi, “Electron Reconstruction in Simulated Pb+Pb events in CMS” 2008. pdf

Classic Papers in Heavy Ion Physics

The Bjorken’s 1983 PRD paper:

First observation of participant scaling

Classic paper about phi mesons in QGP:

The first paper were QGP was introduced at high temperatures:

The first papers, where liberated states of quarks are introduced at high densities:

The paper in which the term QGP was first introduced:

The PHOBOS multiplicity paper:

The participant eccentricity paper: