Athanasios N. Petridis

Associate Professor of Physics

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Harvey Ingham Hall, Room 31C
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa 50311-4505
Office phone: (515) 271-3723
Fax: (515) 271-1943
E-Mail: Athan.Petridis@drake.edu

 

 

 

Degrees

Professional History

Teaching Activity

Research Interests

Journal Publications

Proceedings

Recent Talks

Invited Talks

Technical Reports

Miscellaneous

 

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Theoretical High Energy Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (1992).
  • B.S. Physics, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1986).

 

Professional History

  • Assistant Professor, Drake University (2001-2006)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Drake University (2000-2001)
  • Assistant Physicist, Iowa State University (1996-2000)
  • Post-doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University (1992-1996)
  • Member of the PHENIX Collaboration (1992-2002)
  • Member of the American Physical Society.

 

Teaching Activity

 

Research Interests

  • Suppression of charmonium states, and direct photon production, Drell-Yan cross sections in relation with Quark Gluon Plasma formation and nuclear effects.
  • Simulations of relativistic heavy ion reactions, event generators; high performance computing.
  • Time-dependent relativistic and non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
  • Information Theory in relation with parton distributions in nuclei and quantum mechanics.
  • Non-extensive statistics.

 

Publications in Journals

Articles in Theory:

Articles in Experiment and Computing:

  • 'Implementation of PHENIX Level-1 Trigger Algorithms on Massively Parallel Computers', A. N. Petridis and F. K. Wohn, Computers in Physics, Vol. 9, No 4, July/August 1995, p. 438.
  • 'A High Mass Trigger for the E864 Experiment at the AGS Accelerator', J. Hill et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods A421, 431 (1999).
  • 'The E864 Lead Scintillating Fiber Hadronic Calorimeter', T. A. Armstrong et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A406, 227 (1998).
  • 'Spin Physics with the PHENIX Detector System', N. Saito et al., Nuclear Physics A638, 575 (1998).
  • 'The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC', D. P. Morrison et al., Nuclear Physics A638, 565 (1998).
  • 'A Spectrometer for Study of High Mass Objects Created in Relativistic Heavy Ion Reactions', T. Armstrong et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A437, 222-246 (1999).
  • 'Electromagnetic Dissociation of Au Targets by Relativistic Pb Projectiles', J. Hill, A. Petridis, B. Fadem, and F. Wohn, Nuclear Physics A661, 313c (1999).
  • 'Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 3500 (2001).
  • 'Measurement of the Mid-Rapidity Transverse Energy Distribution from sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 052301 (2001).
  • 'First Results from RHIC-PHENIX', K. Adcox et al., Pramana 57, 355-369 (2001).
  • 'Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au-Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 022301 (2002).
  • 'Overview of PHENIX Results for the First RHIC Run', W. Zajc et al., Nucl. Phys. A698, 39-53 (2002).
  • 'Leading Baryon Production in p+A Collisions at Relativistic Energies', K. Barish et al., Phys. Rev. C65, 014904 (2002).
  • 'Measurements of single electrons and implications for charm production in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 192303 (2002).
  • 'Transverse mass dependence of two-pion correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 192302 (2002).
  • 'Measurement of the Lambda and Anti-Lambda particles in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 092302 (2002).
  • 'Event by event fluctuations in mean p(T) and mean E(T) in sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV Au+Au collisions', K Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. C66, 024901 (2002).
  • 'Centrality dependence of pi+/pi-, K+/K-, p and anti-p production from sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC', K. Adcox et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 242301 (2002).
  • 'Net charge fluctuations in Au+Au interactions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 082301 (2002).
  • 'Leading baryon and antiproton measurements in p+A collisions at AGS energies', K. Barish et al., Nucl. Phys. A698, 599-602 (2002).
  • 'Flow measurements via two-particle azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV, K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 212301 (2002)
  • 'Measurement of leading Lambdas and Delta++'s in p+Pb collisions at 19 GeV/c', K. Barish et al., Phys. Rev. C67, 014902 (2003).
  • 'Centrality dependence of the high pT charged hadron suppression in Au-Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV, K. Adcox et al., Phys. Lett B561, 82-92 (2003).
  • 'Heavy ion collisions at collider energies: insights from PHENIX', A. Drees et al., Pramana 60, 639-650 (2003).
  • 'PHENIX detector overview', K. Adcox et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A499, 469-479 (2003).
  • 'PHENIX on-line systems', S. S. Adler et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods, A499, 560-592 (2003).
  • 'Single identified hadron spectra from sqrt(sNN) = 130 GeV Au+Au collisions', K. Adcox et al., Phys. Rev. C69, 024904 (2004).
  • 'Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration', K. Adcox et al., Nucl. Phys. A757, 184-283 (2005).

 

Publications in Proceedings

  • 'Relative Psi' to J/Psi Suppression in Nuclear Matter', A. N. Petridis, in the Proceedings of the Minneapolis Meeting of the Particles and Fields Division of the American Physical Society (1996).
  • 'Initial and Final State Contributions to the J/Psi Suppression in Proton-Nucleus Collisions', A. N. Petridis and K. E. Lassila, in the Proceedings of the Albuquerque Meeting of the Particles and Fields Division of the American Physical Society, edited by S. Seidel, World Scientific, 1994, p. 1264.
  • 'Probing Multiquark Fragmentation with the Weak Current', K. E. Lassila, C. E. Carlson, A. N. Petridis and U. P. Sukhatme, in the Proceedings of XIV International Warsaw Meeting on Elementary Particle Physics, Warsaw, Poland, 1991, edited by Z. Ajduk, S. Pokorski, and A. K. Wroblewski, World Scientific, 1992, p.579.
  • 'Evidence for Six-Quark Clusters in QCD Processes', A. N. Petridis, C. E. Carlson, K. E. Lassila, and U. P. Sukhatme, in the Proceedings of the Vancouver Meeting of the Particles and Fields Division of the American Physical Society, edited by D. Axen, D. Bryman, and M. Comyn, World Scientific, 1991, p. 666.
  • 'Multiquark Effects and Multiquark Fragmentation', K. E. Lassila, A. N. Petridis, C. E. Carlson, and U. P. Sukhatme, in the Proceedings of the Rice Meeting of the Particles and Fields Division of the American Physical Society, edited by B. Bonner and H. Miettinen, World Scientific, 1990, p. 593.
  • 'Lattice Gauge Theory', C. Bahri, S. Churchwell, Y. Kim, and A. N. Petridis, in the Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at CEBAF, edited by W. Buck, 1990.

 

Recent Talks

 

Invited Talks

  • 'Parton Distributions and the Chemistry of the Nucleus at High Energies', Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, May 1, 2000.
  • 'Studying the Vacuum with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions', Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, November 18, 1999.
  • 'Search for Nuclear Effects with Dileptons in Relativistic Heavy ion Collisions', University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, May 15, 1998.
  • 'Drell-Yan Dileptons at RHIC', Quarks '98 Conference, Suzdal, Russia, May 18, 1998.
  • 'Overview of the PHENIX Data Acquisition and Trigger System', PHENIX Collaboration Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, July 26, 1996.
  • 'Parallel Computing in Physics Applications', Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, June 1, 1995.
  • 'Nuclear Effects in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions', Nuclear Physics Seminar, Department of Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, May 18, 1993.

 

Technical Reports for Theory

 

Technical Reports for Experiments

 

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