Berndt Mueller, J. B. Duke Professor  

Berndt Mueller

Office Location: 250 Physics
Office Phone: 919-660-2570
Email Address: muller@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~muller/

Specialties:
Theoretical nuclear physics

Education:
Dr. phil. nat., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1973
Dipl. phys., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1972

Research Categories: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Research Description: Prof. Mueller's work focuses on nuclear matter at extreme energy density. Quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, predicts that nuclear matter dissolves into quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons and neutrons, when a critical density or temperature is exceeded. He and his collaborators are theoretically studying the properties of this "quark-gluon plasma", its formation, and its detection in high-energy nuclear collisions. His other research interests include symmetry violating processes in the very early universe and the chaotic dynamics of elementary particle fields. Prof. Mueller is the coauthor of textbooks on the Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, on Symmetry Principles in Quantum Mechanics, on Weak Interactions, and on Neural Networks.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Majumder, A., Fries, R. J. and Müller, B., Photon bremsstrahlung and diffusive broadening of a hard jet, Phys. Rev. C (Accepted, 2008) [pdf]  [abs].
  2. Majumder, A. and Müller, B., Higher twist jet broadening and classical propagation, Phys. Rev. C (Accepted, 2008) [pdf]  [abs].
  3. Neufeld, R.B., Müller, B. and Ruppert, J., Sonic Mach cones induced by fast partons in a perturbative quark-gluon plasma, Phys. Rev. C (Submitted, 2008) [2254]  [abs].
  4. Asakawa, M, Bass, S.A., Müller, B., and Nonaka, C., Transverse rapidity dependence of the proton-antiproton ratio as a signature of the QCD critical point, Phys. Rev. Lett. (Submitted, 2008) [2449]  [abs].
  5. Jacobs, P., Kharzeev, D., Müller, B., Nagle, J., Rajagopal, K. and Vigdor, S., Phases of QCD: Summary of the Rutgers long range plan town meeting, January 12-14, 2007 (January, 2007) [1930]  [abs] [author's comments].

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Bryon Neufeld  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Abhijit Majumder (2005/11-present)  
  • Jörg Ruppert (2004/10-2006/08)  
  • Thorsten Renk (2004/01-2005/08)  
  • Rainer J. Fries (2002/01-2003/08)  
  • Steffen A. Bass (1999/01-2000/08)  
  • Dirk H. Rischke (1996/09-1997/08)  
  • Carsten Greiner (1994/01-1996/12)  
  • Sen-Ben Liao (1992/09-1995/08)  
  • Xin-Nian Wang (1991/09-1992/08)  
  • Klaus Kinder-Geiger (1990/01-1991/08)  
  • Alec J. Schramm (1990/01-1992/08)