Presidential Young Investigator Award: High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions (Physics)

由总统青年研究员资助的研究工作最初将集中在两个领域：在欧洲核子研究中心进行实验；并准备在RHIC（美国相对论重离子对撞机）进行实验。CERN的工作将在研究高能重的NA44实验上进行。离子碰撞与聚焦光谱仪。在前两年，实验将用质子和硫光束进行；在那之后，诸如铅之类的较重的梁将可用（到1992年至1993年）。RHIC的工作将包括皮特和布鲁克海文国家实验室的硅漂移室开发工作，最终将该设备用于适合介子干涉测量的小型接收光谱仪。

Research efforts funded by this Presidential Young Investigator grant initially will be concentrated in two areas: carrying out experiments at CERN; and preparing for experiments at RHIC (U.S. Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider). The CERN work will be performed on the NA44 experiment, which studies high energy heavy.ion collisions with a focussing spectrometer. In the first two years, experiments will be carried out with proton and sulfur beams; after that, heavier beams such as lead will become available (by 1992.1993). Efforts for RHIC will involve silicon drift chamber development work at Pitt and Brookhaven National Laboratory, ultimately directed toward using this device in a small acceptance spectrometer suitable for pion interferometry measurements.