Steffen A. Bass

Steffen A. Bass

Associate Professor of Physics

Moderator, Virtual Journal of QCD Matter

bass@phy.duke.edu

Phone: [+1]  919 660 2479
FAX: [+1]  919 660 2525 
Office: 261 D (old: 204 D)
Office hours: Wed. and Friday 9:00 am - 10:30 am (or by appointment)

Research Group: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Current Graduate Students: Nasser Demir

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My research centers around the the physics of the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP) and ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions used to create such a QGP under controlled laboratory conditions. The Quark-Gluon-Plasma is a primordial state of matter which existed a couple of microseconds after the creation of the Universe in the Big Bang. Investigating the properties of the QGP will provide novel insights into the history of the early Universe and QCD, the quantum field theory of the strong interaction force, one of the four basic forces of nature. My research is being funded through an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award by the US Department of Energy.

  • main topics of interest:
    • Parton Cascades
    • Hybrid Transport Models for RHIC
    • UltrarelativisticQuantumMolecularDynamics (UrQMD):
      • hadron abundances, ratios and freeze-out properties from SIS to SPS
      • off-shell propagation in semiclassic transport models
      • resonance-matter: signatures and interaction
    • Description of Colliding Quark Matter with SU(2) Dynamics
    • Heavy-Ion phenomenology: balance functions and quark recombination


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