a firestreak hits msu: the early years barbara jacak february 9, 2011 back to the future with gary!...
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A Firestreak hits MSU: The early years
Barbara JacakFebruary 9, 2011
Back to the futurewith Gary!
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Gary has looked for phase transitions for quite a while!
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Gary didn’t have a collider!
Collisions at 10-1000 MeV/nucleon to vaporize nuclei The medium he wanted to study had vcm ≠ 0
vTARGET= 0
v = vBEAM
Firestreak model
Expect vT & T gradients!
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Gary streaks over to MSU
And there he finds…
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Story telling
Gary is very practiced at this
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A story Gary used to tell
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Always take a friend
especially one withall sorts of good
stuff in hispockets
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Haunted houses are dangerous!
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The LBL Bevalac
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The low energy beam line
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Low Energy Beam Line Counting House
In 1982
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Doing an experiment has evolved
Driven by the science and required complexity to tackle those questions!
Now: a multi-year programmany topics and papers from each year’s running
Then: A week or two of taking dataone (or two) PRL + a PRC with complete results and
details+ one or two Ph.D. theses
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My first PRL
Wrote the first draft
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Gave/sent to the collaborators
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And then…
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hound the collaborators
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Finally everyone agreed!
Ask the secretary to type up a clean copy. Send it off to The Physical Review Editor
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Gary was ahead of his time!
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Moving Source fits
Collective motion: a common vL
of the particle source
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Precursor to the blast wave
Borrowed from Olga Barannikova
Collective motion: a common radial expansion of the particle source
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Can produce nuclei as heavy as
nitrogen via coalescence of protons and neutrons
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We’re still coalescing things!
Greco, Ko, Levai: PRC 68 (2003)034904Baryon enhancement explained by recombination of thermal quarks from an expanding quark gluon plasma.
cc coalesce at freezeout → J/y
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More lessons
Gary teaches his students lots of things
One is audience “management”recall talk from Anne Sickles (Westfall REU student) on Monday
I learned Never show slides that you don’t 100% understand the
contents ofIt’s important to keep the audience awakeThey’re usually awake if they’re laughing
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A final word
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Happy Birthday to The Whooper!!!