RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science RIKEN BNL Research Center

RBRC Director: Robert Tribble (Ph.D.)

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Research Summary

The RIKEN BNL Research Center was established in April 1997 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Center is dedicated to the study of strong interactions, including spin physics, lattice QCD and RHIC physics through the nurturing of a new generation of young physicists. The Center has three research groups: Theory Group led by Y.Hatta, Experimental Group led by Y. Akiba, and Computing Group led by T. Izubuchi. In addition to the strong research program in these three groups, we have a joint-fellowship program with other Universities. The fellowship program enables a talented researcher to maintain a tenure track position at his/her university as well as a Fellow position at RBRC for a certain period of time.

Main Research Fields

Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Keywords

Hadron physics
Chiral symmetry
Nucleon structure
quark gluon plasma

Selected Publications

1. PHENIX Collaboration, K. Adcox et al.:
"Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration"
Nucl.Phys.A 757 (2005) 184-283
2. PHENIX Collaboration A. Adare et al.:
"Enhanced Production of Direct Photons in Au+Au Collisions at =200 GeV and Implications for the Initial Temperature"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 104 (2010) 132301
3. PHENIX Collaboration U.Acharya et al.:
"Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at =510 GeV in p+p collisions"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 98 (2023) 251901
4. PHENIX Collaboration A. Adare et al.:
"Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at = 200-GeV"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 98 (2007) 172301
5. Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Larry D. McLerran, and Harmen J. Warringa.:
"The Effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: 'Event by event P and CP violation'"
Nucl.Phys.A 803 (2008) 227-253
6. G. Policastro(New York U. and Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), Dan T. Son(Columbia U. and RIKEN BNL), Andrei O. Starinets(New York U.):
"The Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 87 (2001) 081601
7. Y. Hatta and M.A. Stephanov.:
"Proton number fluctuation as a signal of the QCD critical endpoint"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 102003, and Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 129901 (erratum)
8. RBC and UKQCD Collaborations, T. Blum et al.:
"Calculation of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 2, 022003
9. RBC and UKQCD Collaborations, Z. Bai et al.:
"Standard Model Prediction for Direct CP Violation in K→ππ Decay"
Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) 21, 212001
10. RBC-UKQCD Collaboration, C. Allton et al.:
"Physical Results from 2+1 Flavor Domain Wall QCD and SU(2) Chiral Perturbation Theory"
Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 114509

Lab Members

Principal investigator

Robert Tribble: RBRC Director

Contact Information

2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan

Organization

Theory Group: Yoshitaka Hatta (Ph.D.)
Experimental Group: Robert Tribble (Ph.D.)
Computing Group: Taku Izubuchi (D.Sc.)