William Allen Zajc

William Allen Zajc (also Bill Zajc or William Zajc or William A. Zajc ) (born November 14, 1954 in San Francisco ) is an American physicist .

Life

Zajc received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1975 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 . He is a professor at Columbia University , where he was appointed II Rabi Professor of Physics in 2015 .

He investigates the experimental consequences of quantum chromodynamics in heavy ion reactions, for example the formation of a quark-gluon plasma . He is spokesman for the Phenix collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) (2011).

Zajc is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, since 1997) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For 2014 he was awarded the APS Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics .

Zajc was the first to use the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect to measure the interaction of heavy ions.

Publications

M. Riordan, WA Zajc: The First Few Microseconds . In: Sci. At the. , 294 N5, 2006, pp. 24-31
WA Zajc et al .: Two-Pion Correlations in Heavy Ion Collisions . In: Phys. Rev. C , 29, 1984, p. 2173.
T. Åkesson et al .: for Quark Deconfinement: Strangeness Production in pp , dd , pα , and αα Collisions at √ s _NN = 31.5 and 44 GeV . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 55, 1985, p. 2535 (Axial Field Spectrometer Collaboration)
WA Zajc: KNO Scaling Isn't What It Used to Be . In: Phys. Lett. B , 175, 1986, p. 21, doi: 10.1016 / 0370-2693 (86) 90720-3
WA Zajc: Monte Carlo Calculational Methods for the Generation of Events with Bose – Einstein Correlations . In: Phys. Rev. D , 35, 1987, p. 3396.
Y. Akiba et al .: Bose – Einstein Correlation of Kaons in Si + Au Collisions at 14.6 A GeV / c. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 70, 1993, p. 1057 (E-802 Collaboration)
Y. Akiba et al .: Production of φ Mesons in Central ²⁸ Si + ¹⁹⁶ Au Collisions at 14.6 A GeV / c. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 76, 1996, p. 2021 (E-802 Collaboration)
K. Adcox et al .: Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at √ s _NN = 130 GeV . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 86, 2001, p. 3500 (PHENIX Collaboration) arxiv : nucl-ex / 0012008
K. Adcox et al .: Measurement of Single Electrons and Implications for Charm Production in Au + Au Collisions at √ s _NN = 130 GeV . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 88, 2002, p. 192303 (PHENIX Collaboration) arxiv : nucl-ex / 0202002
K. Adcox et al .: Transverse-Mass Dependence of Two-Pion Correlations in Au + Au Collisions at √ s _NN = 130 GeV . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 88, 2002, p. 192302 (PHENIX Collaboration) arxiv : nucl-ex / 0201008v3
K. Adcox et al .: Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au + Au Collisions at √ s _NN = 130 GeV . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. , 88, 2002, p. 022301 (PHENIX Collaboration) arxiv : nucl-ex / 0109003

Web links

William Allen Zajc. columbia.edu(English).; accessed on April 14, 2019
Home page for WA Zajc. columbia.edu(English).; accessed on April 14, 2019
Profile at inspirehep.net. Retrieved April 14, 2019

Individual evidence

^ Bill Zajc named II Rabi Professor of Physics. columbia.edu, 2015, accessed April 16, 2019 .
^ Professor and Chair William Zajc Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. columbia.edu, 2015, accessed on April 16, 2019 .
↑ 2014 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient: William A. Zajc. APS, 2014, accessed April 16, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Zajc, William Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zajc, Bill; Zajc, William; Zajc, William A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco

[1] Bill Zajc named II Rabi Professor of Physics. columbia.edu, 2015, accessed April 16, 2019 .

[2] Professor and Chair William Zajc Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. columbia.edu, 2015, accessed on April 16, 2019 .

[3] 2014 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics Recipient: William A. Zajc. APS, 2014, accessed April 16, 2019 .