Sergei Voloshin
Sergei Voloshin | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 18, 1953 Donetsk, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Russian, American |
| Alma mater | Moscow Engineering Physics Institute |
| Known for | Relativistic heavy ion collisions |
| Awards | Fellow of American Physical Society, elected to WSU Academy of Scholars |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg University of Pittsburgh LBNL Wayne State University |
Sergei Voloshin (born February 18, 1953) is a Russian-American experimental high-energy nuclear physicist and Professor of Physics at Wayne State University. He is best known for his work on event-by-event physics in heavy ion collisions.
Career
[edit]Sergei Voloshin studied physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, where he completed his PhD in nuclear physics in 1980 and became a faculty member at the Department of Theoretical Physics. During the period from 1992 to 1999 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, Physikalische Institute (University of Heidelberg) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) where he worked on anisotropic flow and event-by-event physics in nuclear collisions at SPS and RHIC. In 1999 Dr. Voloshin joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University.
Work
[edit]One of the best known Voloshin's contribution is the analysis and interpretation of the so-called anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions.[1][2] He played a leading role in the discovery of the strong elliptic flow at RHIC.[3] Large elliptic flow, consistent with calculations from ideal hydrodynamics, was a key to the concept of strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma, a new form of matter discovered at RHIC. The idea of the constituent quark scaling, proposed by Voloshin, and its observation at RHIC is widely regarded as a proof for a deconfinement phase transition. His recent research interests include studies of possible local parity violation in strong interaction in heavy ion collisions.
Dr. Voloshin is a member of the STAR Collaboration performing experiments at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and the ALICE Collaboration at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Honors
[edit]- Elected a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2008 "for numerous seminal contributions to the methods and interpretation of collective flow in relativistic nuclear collisions”.[4]
- Inducted to Wayne State University's Academy of Scholars in 2012.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Methods for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions", A. M. Poskanzer and S. A. Voloshin, Physical Review C 58, (1998) 1671–1678.
- ^ "Flow study in relativistic nuclear collisions by Fourier expansion of Azimuthal particle distributions", S. Voloshin, Y. Zhang, Zeitschrift für Physik 70 (1996) 665-672.
- ^ Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV," STAR Collaboration, Physical Review Letters 86, (2001) 402–407.
- ^ "Wayne State physics professor honored by American Physical Society". Wayne State University. May 23, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "Professor Sergei Voloshin Elected Member of WSU Academy of Scholars". Wayne State University. April 20, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Sergei Voloshin publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Homepage at Wayne State University
- The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- The Alice Experiment at CERN
- STAR Experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Scientific publications of Sergei Voloshin on INSPIRE-HEP
- 1953 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American physicists
- Moscow Engineering Physics Institute alumni
- University of Pittsburgh faculty
- Wayne State University faculty
- Brookhaven National Laboratory staff
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people
- People associated with CERN
- People from Donetsk
- Fellows of the American Physical Society