Wayne State Nuclear Theory

Prof. Shen wins the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, https://science.osti.gov/early-career

https://today.wayne.edu/news/2021/06/04/wayne-state-physics-professor-awarded-doe-early-career-research-program-grant-42677

Wayne State physics professor awarded DOE Early Career Research Program grant DETROIT – The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the awardees for its Early Career Research Program. The program will support 83 scientists, who will receive a total of $100 million in fun...

Prof. Shen gave a Colloquium talk on "Multi-Messenger Heavy-Ion Physics" in the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series.

Check out the video recording, https://youtu.be/ZD8c0tnCZOc

Want to know when relativistic hydrodynamics is causal? Local high school student Chiu Cheng visualized the causal regions for different viscous hydrodynamic theories with Prof. Shen.

See details in the recent paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09848

Looking for "smoke rings" in relativistic nuclear collisions at high energy!

Prof. Shen recently posted two papers to search for evidence of the ubiquitous vortical “smoke rings” structure in relativistic heavy-ion collisions!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10872
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11919

Dynamical evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision at 19.6 GeV! Enjoy~

Dynamical evolution of a relativistic heavy-ion collision The 3D dynamical evolution of the local energy density in a central Au+Au collision at 19.6 GeV. The numerical simulation was done with the MUSIC code, http:...

The JETSCAPE Collaboration posted a new paper on "Multi-system Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter",https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.01430.pdf

This paper developed a systematic method to use Bayesian Inference to constrain the transport properties of hot QCD matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider.

Wayne State Warriors in the nuclear theory group presented talks at the APS DNP Fall 2020 meeting. 👏👏👏

Prof. Shen post an invited review paper on "Recent development of hydrodynamic modeling in heavy-ion collisions", https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12377

Running the gamut of high energy nuclear collisions!
Our paper was published in Phys. Rev. C!
https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.044905

Editors' Suggestion! Our paper on investigating transverse momentum fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions was published as an Editors' Suggestion in Phys. Rev. C, https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.034905. We proposed a new experimental observable to set constraints on radial flow fluctuations in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.

Probing the early-stage dynamics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions with photons, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.07841. Our paper demonstrates early photons could be used to provide dynamical information on the complex pre-hydrodynamics phase of heavy-ion collisions.

We posted a paper on hunting for critical fluctuations using the light-nuclei production at the RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES) program. Our paper provides a realistic baseline without critical point fluctuations, https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06959. This manuscript has been submitted to Phys. Rev. C.