Zhangbu Xu
Biography
Kent State High-Energy Nuclear Experimental Group Members:
Declan Keane (retired Professor),
Zhangbu Xu (Professor)
Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Research Scientist)
Ashik IKbal Sheihk (Research Scientist)
Chun Yuen (Tommy) Tsang (postdoc)
Emmy Duckworth (student, graduated 08/2025)
Maci Kesler (student)
Albandry Alshammri (student)
Daniel Samuel (student)
Shilpa (student)
Marceline Thornton (student)
Research Interests:
Study the properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a new form of matter believed to have existed during the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, using the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe. The group utilizes flow, (strangeness and charmed) hadron spectra, and thermal e⁺e⁻ pair radiation to investigate QGP properties and the phase diagram of strongly interacting Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) matter.
Search and study properties of exotic antinuclei and hypernuclei
Discover and study the Breit-Wheeler process (two photon colliding to generate matter-antimatter)
Study the gluon junction as a possible tracer of baryon number
Image nuclei using spin-interference diffractive vector meson production in Ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPC) and Electron-Ion collisions (EIC)
Research on silicon based AC coupled Low Gain Avalanche Detector (AC-LGAD) technology for the ePIC time-of-Flight detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at BNL.
Collaboration member of STAR at BNL, ePIC at BNL, LHCb at CERN.
Group Member:
Declan Keane (retired Professor),
Spyridon Margetis (Professor, at DOE),
Zhangbu Xu (Professor)
Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Research Scientist)
Ashik IKbal (Research Scientist)
Chun Yuen (Tommy) Tsang (postdoc)
Emmy Duckworth (student)
Maci Kesler (student)
Daniel Samuel (student)
Shilpa (student)
Research Interests:
Study properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new form of matter believed to exist at the first-few microseconds after the Big Bang, using STAR Detector at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The group has used flow, (strangeness and charmed) hadron spectra and thermal e+e- pair radiation to study the QGP properties and the phase diagram of the strongly interacting Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) matter.
Search and study properties of exotic antinuclei and hypernuclei
Discover and study the Breit-Wheeler process (two photon colliding to generate matter-antimatter)
Study the gluon junction as a possible tracer of baryon number
Imagine nuclei using spin-interference diffractive vector meson production in Ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions (UPC) and Electron-Ion collisions (EIC)
Research on silicon based of AC coupled Low Gain Avalanche Detector (AC-LGAD) technology for the ePIC time-of-Flight detector at the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at BNL.
Education
B.S. 1994 USTC/China
Research Methods
Publications
- https://inspirehep.net/authors/982997?ui-citation-summary=true
- STAR Collaboration, "Tracking the baryon number with nuclear collisions", e-Print: 2408.15441 [nucl-ex]
- STAR Collaboration, "Temperature Measurement of Quark-Gluon Plasma at Different Stages", e-Print: 2402.01998 [nucl-ex]
- "Projective Imaging of High-Energy Nuclei via Coherent Exclusive Vector Meson Production in Electron-Nucleus Collisions", Maci Kesler et al., e-Print: 2502.15596 [nucl-th]
- Lewis, Nicole, et al. "Search for baryon junctions in photonuclear processes and isobar collisions at RHIC." The European Physical Journal C 84.6 (2024): 590.
- Magdy, Niseem, et al. "Search for baryon junctions in e+ A collisions at the electron ion collider." The European Physical Journal C 84.12 (2024): 1326.
- "Probing quantum phenomena through photoproduction in relativistic heavy-ion collisions", Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 143 (2025) 104174 • e-Print: 2504.18342 [nucl-ex]
- "Coalescence formation of muonic atoms at RHIC", Phys.Lett.B 861 (2025) 139242 • e-Print: 2410.06518 [hep-ph]
- "Beam energy dependence of net-hyperon yield and its implication on baryon transport mechanism", Phys.Lett.B 860 (2025) 139205 • e-Print: 2409.06492 [nucl-th]
- "Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions", Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 134 (2024) 104080 • e-Print: 2301.13253 [nucl-th]
