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A Firestreak hits MSU: The early years

Join Gary on a journey as he explores phase transitions and nuclear collisions at MSU back in 1982, shedding light on collective motion and coalescence. Witness intricate experiments and collaborations in the world of particle physics through Gary's eyes.

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A Firestreak hits MSU: The early years

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  1. A Firestreak hits MSU: The early years Back to the future with Gary! Barbara Jacak February 9, 2011

  2. Gary has looked for phase transitions for quite a while!

  3. Gary didn’t have a collider! • Collisions at 10-1000 MeV/nucleon to vaporize nuclei • The medium he wanted to study had vcm≠ 0 v = vBEAM Expect vT & T gradients! Firestreak model vTARGET= 0

  4. Gary streaks over to MSU And there he finds…

  5. Story telling • Gary is very practiced at this

  6. A story Gary used to tell

  7. Always take a friend especially one with all sorts of good stuff in his pockets

  8. Haunted houses are dangerous!

  9. The LBL Bevalac

  10. The low energy beam line

  11. Low Energy Beam Line Counting House In 1982

  12. Doing an experiment has evolved • Driven by the science and required complexity to tackle those questions! • Now: a multi-year program • many topics and papers from each year’s running • Then: A week or two of taking data • one (or two) PRL + a PRC with complete results and details • + one or two Ph.D. theses

  13. Wrote the first draft My first PRL

  14. Gave/sent to the collaborators

  15. And then…

  16. hound the collaborators

  17. Finally everyone agreed! Ask the secretary to type up a clean copy. Send it off to The Physical Review Editor

  18. Gary was ahead of his time!

  19. Moving Source fits Collective motion: a common vLof the particle source

  20. Precursor to the blast wave Collective motion: a common radial expansion of the particle source Borrowed from Olga Barannikova

  21. Can produce nuclei as heavy asnitrogen via coalescence of protons and neutrons

  22. We’re still coalescing things! cc coalesce at freezeout→ J/y Baryon enhancement explained by recombination of thermal quarks from an expanding quark gluon plasma. Greco, Ko, Levai: PRC 68 (2003)034904

  23. More lessons • Gary teaches his students lots of things • One is audience “management” • recall talk from Anne Sickles (Westfall REU student) • on Monday • I learned • Never show slides that you don’t 100% understand the contents of • It’s important to keep the audience awake • They’re usually awake if they’re laughing

  24. A final word

  25. Happy Birthday to The Whooper!!!

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