William Allen Zajc
Professor
PHYSICS
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
William Allen Zajc had completed his PhD degree from University of California, Berkeley,in 1982
Research Interest
experimental study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Far and away the most exciting topic in nonperturbative QCD is the role of QCD in determining the properties of bulk hadronic matter. The excitement results from theoretical predictions that highly compressed nuclear matter will undergo a phase transition, where the quarks and gluons are no longer confined to individual nucleons. The formation and experimental detection of such a state (called the quark-gluon plasma or QGP) is the outstanding question in high-energy nuclear physics.
Publications
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"Search for Quark Deconfinement:Strangeness Production in pp, dd, p-a and a-a Collisions at 31.5 and 44 GeV per Nucleon", T. Akesson, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2535 (1985).
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"Two Pion Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions", W. A. Zajc, et al., Phys. Rev. C29, 2173 (1984).
