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Wei Xie

Assistant Professor of Physics contact me Office: Physics 246 Telephone: (765) 494-8743 Fax: (765) 494-0706 Research Group Homepage

B.S., Physics 1991, Shangdong University, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China
M.S., High Energy Physics 1994, Shangdong University, Jinan, Shandong, P.R. China
Ph.D., High Energy Physics 1997, Institute of High Energy Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, P.R. China

Research Interests

High Energy Nuclear Physics: to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) believed to be created 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. New experiments will be carried out the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in a much higher energy scale after 2008. Currently, I'm focusing on studing heavy quark production in the QGP at RHIC. My students and I are also members of the ongoing silicon detector upgrade at RHIC. Click here for introductions of my field. For the information of our group, please see our group webpage .

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)

Professional Activities

· Committee member of Brookhaven National Lab review on the NSF funded PHENIX muon trigger upgrade project (Oct. 2008).
· Member of STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker silicon detector upgrade project (Aug 2007-present).
· Co-organizer, 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, STAR Collaboration at RHIC(2007-present)
· Member, PHENIX Collaboration at RHIC(1997-2007)
· Member, CERES Collaboration at CERN(1997-present)
· 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

• "Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/Psi Production as Constrainted by Deuteron-Gold Measurements at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV" A. Adare, et al.(PHENIX Collaboration) Physical. Review. C 77, 024912 (2008)

• "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., available in full text on the World Wide Web at http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/890935-91iPMc/

• "Study of J/psi Production in $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV p+p and d+Au Collisions in PHENIX" W. Xie, et al.*, Nuclear Physics A. vol.774, 693-696 (2006).

• " Prospect for W physics at RHIC " Wei Xie, Proceedings of XIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, Madison, Wisconsin, April 27-May 1, 2005 (DIS2005)

• "Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration" K. Adcox, et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) , Nuclear Physics A Volume 757, Issues 1-2 , 8 August 2005, Pages 184-283

• "J/psi production from proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV" S.S. Adler et al.*, Physical Review Letters 92, 051802 (2004)

• "J/Psi Production in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(s)=200 GeV at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider" S.S. Adler et al.*, Physical Review C 69, 014901 (2004)

• "First results from the CERES radial TPC", G. Agakichiev et al. (CERES Collaboration), Nuclear Physics A661(1999)673c-676c

• "On the Large Zenith Angle Muon Events Observed in Emulsion Chamber at Mt. Kanbala", J.T. Ren, Wei Xie et al., Science In China(Chinese version), Vol.40, No.9, Jul. 1997.

• "The Multi-core events with Large Zenith Angle Observed in Emulsion Chamber at Mt. Kanbala", J.T. Ren, Wei Xie et al., Nuclear and High Energy Physics(Chinese), Vol.21, No.2, Feb. 1997.

• "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.

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