Spring 2007 Journal Club

Dates
Speakers
Papers
Talk
January 23
  • Wolf Holzmann
  • Methods of flow determination

  • PRC 58, 1671 : Method for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions
  • NP A590 561 : Collective flow from azimuthal correlations
  • nucl-th/0105040: Flow analysis from multiparticle azimuthal correlations
  • nucl-th/0310016: Analysis of anisotropic flow with Lee-Yang zeroes

    Flow measurements

  • nucl-ex/0611018: Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks
  • nucl-ex/0608033: Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy
  • nucl-ex/0609025: Has the QCD Critical Point been Signaled by Observations at RHIC?
  • Elliptic flow

  • Wolf_flow.ppt
  • January 30
  • Our group & the theory group
  • Discussion of the possible developement of a full simulation package for heavy ion collisions  
    February 13
  • Yue Shi Li
  • Modified Jet Fragmentation

  • hep-ph/0005044: Multiple Scattering, Parton Energy Loss and Modified Framentation Functions in Deeply Inelastic eA Scattering
  • hep-ph/9605213: Jet Quenching in the Opposite Direction of a Tagged Photon in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions
  • Jet Modification

  • February 27
  • David Winter
  • Uranium collisions

  • PRC 72, 037901 : Mulitplicity distribution and source deformation in full-overlap U+U collisions
  • PRL 94, 132301 : Anisotropic Flow and Jet Quenching in Ultrarelativistic U+U collisions
  • UU collisions at RHIC

  • uranium_winter.ppt
  • March 6
  • Nathan Grau
  • low-x Physics

  • Gluons at High Density; Yuri Kovchegov, Rutger's Town Meeting
  • low-x physics and the CGC

  • Grau_20070306.ppt
  • March 13
  • Bill Zajc
  • QCD Perfect Fluid and Black Holes

  • hep-th/0702136: Is there a "most perfect fluid" consistent with quantum field theory?
  • hep-th/0405231: Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
  • AdS-CFT

  • AdSCFTPrimer.ppt
  • August 2
  • Azfar Adil (guest speaker)
  • CGC and Saturation

  • nucl-th/0511046: Hadronic dissipative effects on elliptic flow in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
  • nucl-th/0611017: Effects of fluctuations on the initial eccentricity from the Color Glass Condensate in heavy ion collisions
  • hep-ph/0501087: Evolution at small x_bj: The Color Glass Condensate (review paper)
  • Color Glass Condensate: Theory and Phenomenology

  • CGC_JournalClub.ppt


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