Getting a Ph.D. Thesis on PHENIX
This page is intended to provide information for thesis work on
PHENIX. Students should feel free to contact me for suggestions on content.
Here is a table of PHENIX students who have declared a thesis topic (and had it
made known to me). The "source" Excel file is
here
Achim Franz maintains a
list of all completed theses.
Note to students: Starting your thesis work in experimental nuclear or particle physics can be an
intimidating experience. The apparatus is large, the collaboration is large, and there is
a great deal to learn that is not taught in course or book. Here are a few things that I
hope will help in this process:
- The broad PHENIX program is encompassed in seven
physics groups.
Their web pages provide good starting points to learn about ongoing research in PHENIX.
- The now-ancient THINC pages contain a lot of useful
information related to theory and phenomenology from
the days before there was RHIC data.
- I taught a seminar course in 1998 and in 2002 where students read various papers in the field. The
course pages contain
those references and lots of other useful links.
- There is a very nice reference
book on common particle and nuclear physics concepts by
- R.K.BOCK, at CERN, Geneva, and
- A.VASILESCU, at IFA, Bucuresti.
I've put together a guide to various acronyms that appear in
PHENIX and related work.
On 07-Feb-99, I sent a message to each PHENIX thesis
student (or candidate) known to me at the time. In that message, I described some of
the important aspects regarding thesis work in PHENIX.
