Brian Cole
Professor
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
He has completed B.S.from M.I.Tin 1985 and Ph.D.from M.I.T.in 1992
Research Interest
he study of nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and/or densities. One of the goals of this research is experimental manifestation of the QCD phase transition from ordinary hadronic matter to a form of matter in which quarks and gluons become locally deconfined. Our group currently uses fixed-target collisions of heavy nuclei to produce systems at high baryon density (up to 10 times normal nuclear density), which we then study through the measurement of single-particle production cross sections and two-particle correlation functions. These measurements provide information on the kinetic and flavor partitioning of energy during the collision and on the size of the system at breakup. The experiments are performed at Brookhaven National Laboratory using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, which provides beams of Au ions at a momentum of 11 A GeV/c.
Publications
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"Kaon and Pion Production in Central Si+Au Collisions at 14.6 A GeV" (T. Abbott, et al.) PRL 64, 847 (1990).
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"Leading Particle Distributions in 200 Gev/c p+A Interactions" (K. Abe, et al.) PLB 200, 266 (1988).
