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Wei Xie

Assistant Professor of Physics

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Office: Physics 246
Telephone: (765) 494-8743
Fax: (765) 494-0706
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Ph.D., High Energy Physics 1997, Institute of High Energy Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China

M.S., High Energy Physics 1994, Shangdong University, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

B.S., Physics 1991, Shangdong University, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China

Research Interests

High Energy Nuclear Physics: to study Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) expected to exist a few micro-seconds after the "Big Bang". The experiments are being done at the Relativistic Heavy-ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab in Long Island, NY and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in  much higher collision energies. Currently, my students and I are studying the interactions between charm, beauty quarks and the QGPs created in the STAR experiment at RHIC and in the CMS experiment at LHC.

Graduate Students

  • Xin Li 
  • Mustafa Mustafa 
  • Kurt Jung 

Teaching

  • PHYS 241: Spring 2008,  Spring 2009, Spring 2010 
  • PHYS 521: Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
  • PHYS 214: Spring 2011, Spring 2012. 
  • PHYS 556: Fall 2011, Fall 2012.  

Professional Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Purdue University Dept. of Physics (2007-Present)
  • Riken-BNL Fellow, Riken-BNL Research Center, BNL (2004-2007)
  • Assistant Physicist, UC Riverside (2004-2004)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Riverside (2000-2004)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1997-2000)

Selected Professional Activities

  • Member of STAR 2nd White Paper Committee (Aug. 2012 - present)
  • Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the STAR pre-QuarkMatter2012 Collaboration meeting (June. 2012-present).
  • Co-convener of STAR Heavy Flavor Physics Working Group (Oct. 2011 – present)
  • Member of the international organization committee of the International Workshop on Heavy Quark Production in Heavy-ion Collisions in Utretcht, Netherlands (Jan. 2012 – present).
  • Member of Scientific Program Committee of Heavy Quark Workshop in the University of Illinois, Chicago. (Feb. 2012 – June 2012)
  • Chair of the organization committee of the International Workshop on Heavy Quark Production in Heavy-ion Collisions, West Lafayette, IN, 01/04-01/06, 2011.
  • Member of RHIC/AGS users Executive Committee (2010-2012).
  • Member of STAR Decadal Plan committee (Feb. 2010- Oct. 2010).
  • Committee member of Brookhaven National Lab review on the NSF funded PHENIX muon trigger upgrade project (Oct. 2008).
  • Co-organizer of Workshop on Heavy Flavor probes in studying the Hot/dense matter created at RHIC , Brookhaven National Lab (2005)
  • Co-convener of Heavy/Light Physics Working Group in PHENIX collaboration at RHIC (2004-2007)
  • Project Manager of PHENIX reaction plane detector (2005-2007)
  • Senior Collaborator of PHENIX forward upgrade project (2004-2007)
  • Member of CMS Collaboration at LHC. (Jan. 2012 – present).
  • Member, STAR Collaboration at RHIC(2007-present)
  • Member, PHENIX Collaboration at RHIC(1997-2007)
  • Member, CERES Collaboration at CERN(1997-2012)
  • Member, American Physical Society (2000-present)
  • Member, Mt. Kanbala and Yang-ba-jing cosmic-ray experiment in Tibet, China (1991-1997)

Awards and Honors

  • RIKEN/BNL Research Center Fellowship at Brookhaven National Lab (2004-2007)
  • Feinberg Fellowship at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1997-2000)
  • Guang Hua Fellowship Award for outstanding students in Shandong University, P.R. China (1988)

Selected Publications

  • “Study Heavy Flavor Hadrons Production through their Semi-leptonic Decays at RHIC and LHC”, W. Xie, Acta Physica Polonica B 43, 671 (2012).
  • “High pT Non-photonic Electron Measurement in 200 GeV p+p collisions at RHIC”, H. Agakishiev et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 83, 052006 (2011).
  • "Transverse Momentum and Centrality Dependence of high-pT Nonphotonic Electron Suppression in Au+Au collisions at $sqrt{s_{NN}}=200 GeV. B. I. Abelev, et al. (STAR Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 159902 (2011).
  • “Heavy Flavor Production and Heavy Flavor Induced Correlation at RHIC”, W. Xie for STAR collaboration, Nuclear Physic A 855, 108 (2011)
  • "J/psi Production in sqrt (s_NN)= 200 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions" A. Adare, et al.(PHENIX Collaboration) Physical Review Letters 101, 122301 (2008)
  • "J/psi Production in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV" A. Adare, et al.(PHENIX Collaboration) Physical Review Letters 98, 232002 (2007)
  • "J/psi Production in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV" A. Adare, et al.(PHENIX Collaboration) Physical Review Letters 98, 232301 (2007)
  • DOE technical report entitled "PROCEEDINGS FROM RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER WORKSHOP: HEAVY FLAVOR PRODUCTIONS AND HOT/DENSE QUARK MATTER." Wei Xie, et al.,   http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/890935-91iPMc/
  • "Using Artificial Neural Network to Identify Primary Cosmic-ray component", Wei Xie, et al., Nuclear and High Energy Physics(Chinese), Vol.21, No.2, Feb. 1997.