Berndt Mueller
J. B. Duke Professor of Physicsmueller@phy.duke.edu
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Research Area: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics
Research Group: Hot and Dense QCD Matter / Duke QCD Theory
International Connections: Duke-Japan Collaboration
Current Graduate Students: R. Bryon Neufeld
Previous Graduate Students (at Duke University):
- Chengqiang Gong
- Chaoran Hu
- Jochen Rau
- Michael T. Strickland
Mentored Undergraduate Students:
- Lester Chen
- Jacob G. Foster
- Dena McCown
Teaching:
- PHY 053L Introductory Physics I (Fall 2007)
Research:
My research currently focuses on nuclear matter at extreme energy density. Quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, predicts that nuclear matter dissolves into quarks and gluons, the constituents of nucleons, when a critical energy density is exceeded. My collaborators and I are studying the properties of this quark-gluon plasma from the theoretical point of view. We are also developing the theory of the formation of a quark-gluon plasma and its possible detection in high-energy nuclear collisions.
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Reports and Proposals:
- NSAC Report on Nuclear Theory: A Vision for Nuclear Theory (2004)
- SciDAC II Proposal: RHIC Transport Initiative (2006)
- PSAAP Proposal: RHIC Modeling and Simulation Center (Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program - 2007)
- Research proposal of our currently funded DOE grant (2004).
- Annual Report (2005) of our research group.
- Annual Report (2006) of our research group.
Monographs: I have co-authored several physics textbooks and mongraphs, including:
- The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma
- Quark-Gluon Plasma: Theoretical Foundations (with J. I. Kapusta and J. Rafelski)
- Quantum Mechanics: Symmetries (with W. Greiner)
- Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions (with W. Greiner)
- Neural Networks: An Introduction (with J. Reinhardt and M. T. Strickland)
- Chaos and Gauge Field Theory (with T. S. Biro and S. G. Matinyan)
- The Structured Vacuum: Thinking about Nothing (with J. Rafelski)
Recent Lectures:
- Anomalous viscosities of Yang-Mills plasmas - Workshop on Early-Time Dynamics in Heavy-Ion Collisions (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) July 2007
- From quark-gluon plasma to the "perfect" liquid: Lecture 1 Lecture 2 - Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, (Zakopane, Poland) June 2007
- The perfect black ink: The quark-gluon plasma as seen at RHIC - 20 Years CERN Heavy Ion Forum (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) March 2007
- Some like it hot: The quark-gluon plasma from RHIC to LHC Helmholtz Graduate School Opening Symposium (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) October 2006
- The turbulent quark-gluon plasma - RIKEN Workshop on Frontiers in the Physics of Quark-Gluon Plasma (Wako-shi, Japan) July 2006
- Theoretical Summary - Quark Matter 2005 (Budapest, Hungary) August 2005
- The re-combinatorics of thermal quarks - The Berkeley School (LBNL, Berkeley, CA) May 2005
- Heavy ions - Prospects at LHC - LHC2004 Conference (Vienna, Austria) June 2004
- Hadronic signals of deconfinement at RHIC - New Discoveries at RHIC Workshop (Broohaven National Laboratory) June 2004
- Lectures on Heavy Ion Physics at the LHC - 57th Scottish Universities Summer School (St. Andrews, Scotland) October 2003
Some conferences and workshops I have helped organize:
- Paris QCD Workshops 1991 - 2007
- Strange Quark Matter 2003
- Mini-Workshop on Quark Recombination (INT, Seattle, WA)
- Workshop on Parton Cascades and Perturbative QCD Description of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (ECT*, Trento, Italy)
Quotations in the Literature:
- In Love Letters to the Universe: Quotations by Independent Thinkers by Richard Kehl
- In A Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything by K. C. Cole
- In The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon by Brian Clegg
Interesting links:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Theory Group(s)
- Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, J.W. Goethe University (UFTP)
- European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)
- DOE Office of Nuclear Physics
- DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC)
Last updated: 30-Nov-2007