PHENIX PhD Theses

Given Name Family Name Thesis Topic Completion
Date
Institution Adviser Second
Adviser
Other
Institution
PWG
Andrew Adare Jet Physics in 200 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions   University of Colorado Nagle     Photon/Hard
Christine Aidala Measurement of AN and ALL through Neutral and Charged Pions 2005 Columbia University Cole     Spin
Hisham Albataineh Measurment of AN for transverse single-spin from 62.4GeV and 200GeV   New Mexico State University Papavassiliou Liu   Spin
Ahmed Al-Jamel J/psi production properties from polarized proton-proton collisions at 200 GeV 2004 New Mexico State University Papavassiliou     Spin
Raul Armendariz Run-4 Au-Au   New Mexico State University Pate     Heavy/Light
Stefan Bathe Momentum Fluctuations and Production of Neutral Mesons in
Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
2002 University of Muenster Santo     Photon/Hard
Robert Bennett Longitudinal Double spin asymmetry of Photon Production
in Polarized Protons at 200 GeV
  SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Deshpande     Spin
Kieran Boyle Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry of pi0 Production
in Polarized Protons at 200 GeV
  SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Deshpande     Spin
Henner Buesching Azimuthal Photon Correlations in Ultra-relativistic p+A, Pb+Pb and Au+Au Reactions 2002 University of Muenster Santo     Photon/Hard
Jane Burward-Hoy Transverse Momentum Distributions of Hadrons Produced in Au+Au Collisions at 130 GeV
 Measured by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC BNL
2001 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Jacak     Global/Hadron
Sergey Butsyk Charm production in 200-GeV  p+p collisions 2005 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics)        
Sarah Campbell Low mass di-electrons from Cu+Cu Collisions   SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Hemmick     Heavy/Light
Xavier Camard     SUBATECH        
Mickey Chiu Angular Correlations in High pT Particle Production in Au-Au Collisons at RHIC 2004 Columbia University Zajc Nagle Colorado Photon/Hard
Christopher Cleven Heavy Flavor Production and the Reaction Plane in Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC   Georgia State University He     Heavy/Light
Yann Cobigo Production de J/Psi dans les collisions proton-proton et deuton-or
à 200 GeV dans le centre de masse nucléon-nucléon
2004 Dapnia/Saclay Gosset     Heavy/Light
Paul Constantin Extraction of jet properties from two-particle azimuthal correlations
 in pp and AuAu collisions at  √sNN  = 200 GeV
2004 Iowa State University Lajoie     Photon/Hard
Kushal Das J/Psi Production Measured via e+e- decays in Au-Au Collisions at RHIC   Florida State University Frawley     Heavy/Light
Cesar Luiz da Silva Study of Vector Mesons with the PHENIX Detector   University of Sao Paulo Dietzsch Rosati Iowa State Heavy/Light
Torsten Dahms Measurement of Photons via Conversion Pairs with the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC 2005 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Drees     (Master's Thesis)
Alan Dion Heavy Flavor Production (via e-mu?)   SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Averbeck     Heavy/Light
Lesley D'Orazio     University of Maryland Mignery      
Rickard du Rietz Effective Charges Near 56Ni and Production of Anti-Nuclei Studied with Heavy-Ion Reactions 2002 Lund University Gustafsson     Heavy/Light
Karim El Chenawi A High Resolution Tracking System for High Energy Heavy-Ion Experiments 1998 Lund University Gustafsson     (Master's Thesis)
Jamil Egdemir Nuclear Modification Factor in Semi-leptonic Heavy Flavor decays
in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions
  SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Averbeck     Heavy/Light
Tatia Engelmore     Columbia University Cole     Photon/Hard
Akitomo Enokizono Space-time evolution of hot and dense matter probed by Bose-Einstein correlation
 in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
2004 Hiroshima University Sugitate     Global/Hadron
Tahsina Ferdousi Measurement of Charged Particle Multiplicity with the Multiplicity and Vertex Detector
at the PHENIX Detector at RHIC
2002 UC-Riverside Seto     (Master's Thesis)
Justin Frantz Direct Photon Shine: Direct Photon and po Production
in √s
NN = 200 GeV Au-Au Collisions
2004 Columbia University Cole Nagle Colorado Photon/Hard
Yoshi Fukao   Double spin asymmetry in pi0 production in p+p collisions   Kyoto University Saito     Spin
Sebastien Gadrat Etude de la production de charme ouvert et de Drell-Yan dans les collisions p+p
avec PHENIX à RHIC
2005 Clermont-Ferrand Roche     Heavy/Light
Irakli Garishvili Open Charm in Cu+Cu at 200 GeV   University of Tennessee Read Sorensen   Heavy/Light
Andrew Glenn Single Muon Production and Implications for Charm in
√sNN = 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions
2005 University of Tennessee Sorensen Read    
Nathan Grau Systematic study of high-pT di-jet correlations in nuclear collisions with the
PHENIX experiment at RHIC
2005 Iowa State University Ogilvie     Photon/Hard
Taku Gunji J/psi -> e+e- measurements in Au-Au Collisions at RHIC-PHENIX   CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Heavy/Light
Takashi Hachiya     Hiroshima University Sugitate      
Ahmed Hadj Henni Direct Photons in p+p Collisions at 200 GeV   SUBATECH Delagrange     Photon/Hard
Ali Hanks     Columbia University Cole     Photon/Hard
Eva Haslum Event-by-event fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions   Lund University Gustafsson Oskarsson   Global/Hadron
Robert Hobbs Measuring the Partonic Orbital Angular Momentum in the Proton
from Two Particle Azimuthal Correlations at PHENIX in Run3pp
2006 University of New Mexico Fields     Spin
Wolf Holzmann Modification of Jet-Properties in Ultrarelativistic
d+Au, Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
2006 SUNY-Stony Brook (Chemistry) Lacey     Photon/Hard
Andrew Hoover The PHENIX Muon Spectrometer and J/psi Production in √s=200 GeV
proton-proton collisions at RHIC 
2003 New Mexico State University Pate     Heavy/Light
Takuma Horaguchi Prompt Photon Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 200 GeV 2006 Tokyo Institute of Technology Shibata     Spin
Donald Hornback Open Charm in p+p Collisions at 200 GeV   University of Tennessee Read Sorensen   Heavy/Light
TadaAki Isobe Direct Photon and pi0 Production in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions   CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Photon/Hard
Michael Issah     SUNY-Stony Brook (Chemistry) Lacey     Photon/Hard
Wooyoung Jang     University of Korea        
Jiangyong Jia High-pT Charged Hadron Suppression in Au-Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV 2003 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Drees     Photon/Hard
Jiamin Jin Direct photon Jet Physics in 200GeV/c Au+Au Collisions   Columbia University Cole     Photon/Hard
Soichiro Kametani Measurement of J/Psi Production in the e+e- Channel in d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200GeV   CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Heavy/Light
Nobuyuki Kamihara J/Psi formation and decay in polarized proton-proton collisions at PHENIX   Tokyo Institute of Technology Shibata     Spin
Young Gook Kim PHENIX Event Characterization Using Charged Particle Multiplicities
measured with the MVD 
  Yonsei University Kang     Global/Hadron
Dong Jo Kim J/Y Production in d+Au and p+p Collisions as √s=200 GeV 2004 Yonsei University Kang     Heavy/Light
Akio Kiyomichi Study of Identified Hadron Spectra and Yields at Mid-rapidity in √sNN = 200 GeV
Au+Au Collisions
2005 University of Tsukuba Miake     Global/Hadron
Christian Klein-Bösing Production of Neutral Pions and Direct Photons in Ultra-Relativistic Au+Au Collisions 2005 University of Muenster Santo     Photon/Hard
Ryota Kohara J/psi Suppression Mechanism   Hiroshima University Sugitate     Heavy/Light
Dmitri Kotchetgov Study of chiral symmetry restoration in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC   UC-Riverside Seto      
Alexander Kozlov (Electron Pairs)   Weizmann Institute Tserruya     Heavy/Light
Ansgar Kumpmann Production of Neutral Pions in 200 GeV p+p Collisions   University of Muenster Wessels     Photon/Hard
MinJung Kweon J/Psi Production in Au+Au Collision at RHIC 2005 Korea University Hong     Heavy/Light
Yue Shi Lai     Columbia University Cole     Photon/Hard
KwangBok Lee     Korea University Hong     Heavy/Light
Hiroshi Masui Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at RHIC   University of Tsukuba Miake Esumi   Global/Hadron
Felice Matathias Identified Particle Production in p+p and d+Au Collisions at RHIC Energies 2004 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Hemmick      
Takashi Matsumoto Measurements of production cross section of J/psi
in √sNN = 200 GeV Au+Au reactions at RHIC
  CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Heavy/Light
Alexander Milov Particle production in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies 2002 Weizmann Institute Tserruya     Global/Hadron
Astrid Morreale Measurement of Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry through Charged Pions   UC-Riverside Barish     Spin
Mohammed Muniruzzman > Asymmetry through Charged Pions 2003 UC-Riverside Seto     Heavy/Light
Tomoaki Nakamura     Hiroshima University Sugitate      
Kenichi Nakano  Double helicity asymmetry in multi-particle measurement
from polarized proton-proton collision at PHENIX
  Tokyo Institute of Technology Shibata     Spin
Jason Newby J/Psi Production in Heavy Ions at RHIC using PHENIX muon arms 2003 University of Tennessee Sorensen Read   Heavy/Light
Paul Nilsson Experimental studies of particle production in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions 2001 Lund University Oskarsson Gustafsson   Global/Hadron
Susumu Oda Measurement of Vector Mesons in the e+e- Channel in Cu+Cu Collisions   CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Heavy/Light
Ken Oyama Pizero production in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130 GeV 2002 CNS-Tokyo Hamagaki     Photon/Hard
WooJin Park Open Charm Production in Au-Au Collisions at RHIC   University of Korea Hong     Heavy/Light
Hua Pei     Iowa State University Ogilvie     Photon/Hard
Hai Qu Quarkonium Polarization Measurement at RHIC   Georgia State University He     Heavy/Light
Anuj Purwar Study of Initial and Final State Effects in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Using Hadronic Probes
2004 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Hemmick     Global/Hadron
Andry Rakotozafindrabe J/Y Production in Cu+Cu Collisions   Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet Fleuret     Heavy/Light
Yuriy Riabov Measurement of the spectral shape of light mesons produced
in relativistic ion collisions through hadron decay modes
  PNPI Samsonov Milov SUNY-Stony Brook
(Physics)
Heavy/Light
Eric Richardson     University of Maryland Mignery      
Sarah Rosendahl Resonance studies in Heavy Ion collisions at RHIC   Lund University Nystrand Stenlund   Global/Hadron
Sang Su Ryu Fluctuations in the Charged Particle Multiplicity Distributions   Yonsei University Kang     Heavy/Light
Baldo Sahlmueller Spectra of pi0's, eta's and direct photons in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions   University of Muenster Wessels     Photon/Hard
Shingo Sakai Azimuthal anisotropy of heavy flavor electrons in Au+Au collisions at  200 GeV   University of Tsukuba Miake Esumi   Heavy/Light
Kohichi Sakashita Prompt photon production in polarized proton-proton collision  at PHENIX   Tokyo Institute of Technology Shibata     Spin
Hiroki Sato J/psi Production in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV 2003 Kyoto University Imai     Heavy/Light
Joeseph Seele Cross section and ALL for h production in polarized p+p collisions at 200 GeV   University of Colorado Kinney Nagle   Spin
Anne Sickles Azimuthal Correlation and Conditional Yield Measurements in √sNN=200GeV
in Au+Au, d+Au and p+p Collisions at RHIC
2005 SUNY-Stony Brook (Physics) Jacak     Photon/Hard
David Silvermyr Aspects of Hadron Production in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions 2001 Lund University Stenlund Gustafsson   Global/Hadron
Catherine  Silvestre J/Psi Production in Au+Au Collision at RHIC   Saclay (CEA) Pereira Gonin   Heavy/Light
Steven Skutnik A scalable analytic model for single event upsets in radiation-hardened
field programmable gate arrays in the PHENIX interaction region
2005 Iowa State University Lajoie     (Master's Thesis)
Mikhail Stepanov Charm production in 200-GeV polarized p-p collisions   New Mexico State University Papavassiliou     Spin
Peter Tarjan p0 spectra from 200 GeV d+Au   Debrecen University David     Photon/Hard
Manabu Togawa Single Transverse-spin asymmetry in forward neutron production in
  p+p collisions at 200 GeV and 410 GeV
  Kyoto University Saito     Spin
Hisayuki Torii Midrapidity Neutral-Pion Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 200GeV 2003 Kyoto University Imai     Photon/Hard
Vi-Nham Tram Etude de la production du J/psi dans les collisions or-or à 200 GeV par paire de nucléons
dans l'expérience PHENIX
2006 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet Drapier Fleuret   Heavy/Light
Yuji Tsuchimoto     Hiroshima University Sugitate Homma    
Thomas Svensson Tracking Chambers with 2-Dimensional Readout for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC 1999 Lund University Oskarsson Stenlund    
Henrik Tydesjo Net charge fluctuations in AuAu collisions at RHIC 2004 Lund University Oskarsson     Global/Hadron
Eric Vazquez     Columbia University Cole     Photon/Hard
Robert Vertesi     Debrecen University David     Photon/Hard
Matthew Wysocki Quarkonia in Au+Au and Cu+Cu Collisions at 200 GeV   University of Colorado Nagle     Heavy/Light
Oliver Zaudtke Pi0- and direct photon spectra from 200 GeV Au-Au and pp-data   University of Muenster Wessels Reygers   Photon/Hard
Chun Zhang Nuclear Modification Factor for Hadrons at Forward and Backward Rapidities
in Deuteron+Gold Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV
2004 Columbia University Zajc Nagle Colorado Heavy/Light
Xiaopeng Zong     Iowa State University Rosati     Heavy/Light