John Moreland, Affiliate
Office Location: 274-A Physics
Email Address: john.moreland@duke.edu
Specialties:
Theoretical nuclear physics
Education:
BS physics, mathematics with honors,, Ohio State University, 2012
Research Categories: computational physics, nuclear theory
Research Description: At temperatures exceeding two trillion Kelvin, nuclear matter undergoes a phase transition from a hadron resonance gas to a color-neutral soup of deconfined quarks and gluons known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This exotic state of matter filled the universe for several microseconds after the big bang and is a critical chapter in our cosmic narrative. My current work focuses on improving computer simulations used to model QGP fireballs produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. I'm specifically interested in improving our murky understanding of early time, pre-equillibrium dynamics and extracting hydrodynamic transport coefficients of the QGP medium.
Recent Publications
- J. Scott Moreland, Jonah E. Bernhard, Steffen A. Bass, Alternative ansatz to wounded nucleon and binary collision scaling in high-energy nuclear collisions, Physical Review C, vol. 92 no. 011901 (July 6, 2015), pp. 6 [1334386], [doi] [abs].
- J. Scott Moreland, Ulrich W. Heinz, Imprinting Quantum Fluctuations on Hydrodynamic Initial Conditions, Nuclear Physics A, vol. 84 no. 054905 (October, 2012), pp. 8 [1191938], [doi] [abs].
- Ulrich W. Heinz, J. Scott Moreland, Energy dependent growth of the nucleon and hydrodynamic initial conditions, Physical Review C, vol. 84 no. 054905 (August, 2011), pp. 8 [925458], [doi] [abs].
- Ulrich W. Heinz, J. Scott Moreland, Huichao Song, Viscosity from elliptic flow: The path to precision, Physical Review C, vol. 80 no. 061901 (August, 2009), pp. 4 [828996], [doi] [abs].