Bryon Neufeld, Entered 2004/05
Office Location: 262 Physics
Office Phone: 919-660-2455
Email Address: rbn2@phy.duke.edu
Specialties:
Theoretical nuclear physics
Research Categories: Response of Hot QCD Matter to Hard Probes
Research Description: In relativistic heavy-ion collisions nuclear matter melts into a state of de-confined quarks and gluons. Often in such a collision, quarks will scatter at a large angle and propagate through the medium. An interesting question which arises is how does the medium respond to these hard probes? There is experimental evidence to suggest that the propagating quarks may generate conical Mach cone like flow in the medium. My research has investigated various formalisms to theoretically treat this question.
Areas of Interest:
Nuclear theory
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- R. B. Neufeld, Mach Cones in the quark-gluon plasma: viscosity, speed of sound, and effects of finite source structure, Phys. Rev. C 79, 054909 (2009) .
- R. Bryon Neufeld, Comparing different freeze-out scenarios in azimuthal hadron correlations induced by fast partons, Eur.Phys.J.C. (conference proceedings for Hot Quarks 2008) (2009) .
- R.B. Neufeld and B. Müller, The sound produced by a fast parton in the quark-gluon plasma is a crescendo, Phys. Rev. Letters (Submitted, 2009) .
- B. Muller and R.B. Neufeld, The sound of a fast parton in QCD, Journal of Physics G35:104108 (Conference proceedings for QM 2008) (2009) .
- R.B. Neufeld, B. Müller, and J. Ruppert, Sonic Mach cones induced by fast partons in a perturbative quark gluon plasma, Phys. Rev. C 74, 041901 (2008) .