Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez
Assistant Professor
Nuclear Physics (Experimental)
B.S., ITESM, 1995.
M.S., Yale Univeristy, 1999.
Ph.D., Yale University, 2001.
Postdoctoral Position: Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Other Affiliation: STAR Collaboration
Phone: Swain West 336 (812)856-5340
Email: mancalde@indiana.edu
Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
I am working in studies of heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab. I participate in the STAR Experiment, where I'm interested in a measurement of production of J/Psi and hopefully Upsilon meson. From the theoretical side, the advantage of studying processes such as quarkonium production is that one can have the guidance of Lattice QCD simulations to infer the properties of heavy quark bound states, and with perturbative QCD one can focus on modifications of these calculable processes due to the presence of nuclear or deconfined matter. My interest is in the experimental measurement of the heavy quark bound states in heavy ion collisions. In STAR one can carry out a measurement of the J/ψ meson by reconstructing the decay J/ψ → e+e- using tracking and calorimetry for electron identification. With the Barrel EM Calorimeter, the Level 3 trigger and with the Endcap EM Calorimeter (a detector with IUCF at the helm), a J/ψ measurement should be possible to achieve in STAR in the near future.
Selected Publications:
- Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high pT hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, J. Adams et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072304 (2003). [nucl-ex/0306024]
- Disappearance of back-to-back high pT hadron correlations in central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV, C. Adler et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 082302 (2003).
- Multiplicity distribution and spectra of negatively charged hadrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV, C. Adler et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 112303 (2001).
- Thesis: Negatively Charged Hadron Spectra in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 GeV. [nucl-ex/0108012]
- STAR Detector Overview, K.H. Ackermann et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A499, 624 (2003).
- The STAR Time Projection Chamber: A Unique Tool for Studying High Multiplicity Events at RHIC, M. Anderson et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A499, 659 (2003). [nucl-ex/0301015]
