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AFranz Achim Franz
Physicist

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E-Mail: achim@bnl.gov
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Research interests

Primary research interests are particle detectors in general and relativistic heavy ion physics with the PHENIX Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven, specifically its Time Expansion / Transition Radiation Chambers (TEC/TRD) and the experimental magnets.

Education and employment

1977 - 1983 1. Staatsexamen Sekundarstufe II (High School Teacher) in Mathematics and Physics, University Siegen, Siegen NRW, Germany
1983 - 1986 Ph.D. Physics, University Siegen, Siegen NRW, Germany
1986 - 1988 Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA
1988 - 1990 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, USA
1990 - 1997 Staff Physicist, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 - 1998 Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, USA
1998 - 2001 Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, USA
2001 - present Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY, USA

Memberships

  • American Physical Socienty: Division of Nuclear Physics, Forum on Education, and New York State Section

Concurrent positions and committees

  • First PHENIX Run-Coordinator 1999-2001
  • PHENIX Detector Council member for the Transition Radiation Detector and the experimental magnet systems
  • Member of PHENIX PPC and IRC publication committees

Recent invited talks

  • Scanning for changes, recent PHENIX results from the beam energy scan at RHIC, QNP2012, Palaiseau, France, April 2012
  • Highlights from the PHENIX Experiment I, Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur India, Febr. 2008
  • Five Years of Tracking Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC, Time05 Workshop, Zurich Switzerland, Oct 2005

Selected publications

  • Scanning for changes, recent PHENIX results from the beam energy scan at RHIC, PoS(QNP2012)166
  • Highlights from PHENIX - I, A.Franz for the PHENIX Collaboration, Quark Matter 08, Jaipur India, arXiv:0805.1718v1 [nucl-ex], J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 35 (2008) 104002 ( PDF )
  • Five Years of Tracking Heavy Ion Collisions at RHIC, A. Franz, proceedings of the TIME05 workshop, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A566 (2006) 54-61, Zurich Switzerland.
  • The NA44 data acquisition system in the CASCADE environment, A. Franz, A. Ljubicic, D.S. Zachary, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A384:371-374,1997.
  • Measuring the space-time extent of nuclear collisions using interferometry, A. Franz et al., Quark Matter 96, Nucl.Phys.A610:240C-247C,1996. Heidelberg Germany.
  • Results from NA44 on heavy ion collisions from p Be to Pb Pb, A. Franz et al., HEP95, High energy physics, 355-356, 1995, Brussels Belgium..
  • Single particle spectra and two particle correlation from NA44, 'the focusing spectrometer' at the CERN SPS, A. Franz et al. HEP92, High energy physics, vol. 1 1019-1023, 1996, Dallas Texas
  • Study Of High-Energy Nucleus Nucleus Collisions, A. Franz, Proceedings, Intersections between particle and nuclear physics 1026-1029, 1988 Rockport Maine.
  • The Transverse Energy Distribution In Proton Lead Collisions, A. Franz et al., Nucl.Phys.A447:475C-478C,1986
  • Characteristics Of A Circular Electrodeless Drift Chamber, Achim Franz, Claus Grupen, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.200:331,1982.
Not listed are numerous (>250) publications with the experiments WA80/93/98, NA44, and PHENIX


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