Peter Steinberg
Physicist

Work:Building 510D,Office 2-232,BNL,+1 631-344-4390
Home:Chelsea, New York City
Other: E-Mail:peter.steinberg at bnl.gov,AIM Name: PeteAStein

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Welcome to my personal page. I am a Physicist in the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory acting as Project Manager of the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC. My main job these days is working towards doing heavy ion physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.

This is an interesting time to be working in this field. RHIC has provided a wealth interesting data on a qualitatively new state of strongly-interacting matter that may not have existed since the early universe (see the "white papers" from the four experiments: BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS, and STAR).

At the same time, the imminent turn-on of the LHC is part of the debate over the future of the field, as is the planning for RHIC II and eRHIC, the upgrades to the RHIC complex. For more discussion of these, please see my contributions to the US-LHC blog over the course of the year.

 

In 2005 I participated in a year-long project participating in an international group of physicists as a "Quantum Diarist". While I'm no longer writing for this blog anymore, I have decided to keep posting to a new blog, Entropy Bound, which can be found here.

 

The RHIC experiments study high-energy collisions of gold nuclei. For a colloquium-level introduction to RHIC physics here is a talk I gave at the Brookhaven Chemistry Department in May 2005. Here's a nice compilation of various articles about RHIC since 1998 (from Marzia Rosati @ Iowa State).

 

Look for papers and proceedings on SPIRES!

 

You can see a list of papers, talks, and seminars by downloading my full CV (from Dec 2003). Otherwise you can peruse my recent work on SPIRES or go directly to:

  1. "The PHOBOS Glauber Monte Carlo", B. Alver, M. Baker, C. Loizides, P. Steinberg, (arxiv:0805.4411, code on HepForge)

  2. "System size, energy and centrality dependence of pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles in relativistic heavy ion collisions", B. Alver et al (arxiv:0709.4008)

  3. "Quasi-Particle Degrees of Freedom versus the Perfect Fluid as Descriptors of the Quark-Gluon Plasma", L. A. Linden Levy, J. L. Nagle, C. Rosen (U. Colorado), P. Steinberg (arxiv:0709.3105) (online discussion at the Virtual Journal on QCD Matter)

  4. "(Unintended) Consequences of the Glauber Initial State", P.Steinberg, Talk given at the conference "Early Time Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions", McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 17, 2007 (pdf)

  5. "Introduction to Heavy Ion Collisions: Three Lectures", P.Steinberg, Presented at the National Nuclear Physics Summer School, Florida State University, 9-11 July 2007 (Lecture 1,Lecture 2,Lecture 3)

  6. "Consequences of Early Thermalization at Low and High p_T", P. Steinberg, Proceedings for "High-pT physics at LHC", Jyvaskyla, Finland, March 23-27, 2007, PoS(LHC07)033 (pdf)

  7. "Heavy ion physics at the LHC with the ATLAS detector", P. Steinberg for the ATLAS Collaboration, J.Phys.G34:S527-534,2007 (doi,arxiv:0705.0382)

  8. "Cluster properties from two-particle angular correlations in p + p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV and 410-GeV", B.Alver et al, Phys.Rev.C75:054913,2007 (doi,arxiv:0704.0966)

  9. "Inclusive Pseudorapidity Distributions in p(d)+A Collisions Modeled With Shifted Rapidity Distributions", P. Steinberg, Submitted to Physics Letters B (nucl-ex/0703002)

  10. "Hotter, Denser, Faster, Smaller...and Nearly-Perfect: What's the matter at RHIC?", P. Steinberg, APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, Nashville, Tennesse, 22-24 Oct 2006, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 69 012032 (doi,nucl-ex/0702020)

  11. "Entropy Production at High Energy and mu(B)", P.Steinberg, Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, Florence, Italy, 3-6 Jul 2006, Published in PoS CPOD2006:036,2006(pdf, nucl-ex/0702019)

  12. "Glauber modeling in high energy nuclear collisions" M.L.Miller, K.Reygers, S.J.Sanders, P.Steinberg, Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.57,2007 (doi,nucl-ex/0701025)

  13. "Vertex Reconstruction Using a Single Layer Silicon Detector", E. Garcia et al, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A570:536-542,2007 (nucl-ex/0612005)

  14. "System size, energy, pseudorapidity, and centrality dependence of elliptic flow", B.B. Back et al, Phys.Rev.Lett.98:242302,2007 (nucl-ex/0610037)

  15. "Centrality and energy dependence of charged-particle multiplicities in heavy ion collisions in the context of elementary reactions", B.B. Back et al, Phys.Rev.C74:021902,2006 (doi)

  16. "Forward-backward multiplicity correlations in sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions", B.B. Back, et al, Phys.Rev.C74:011901,2006 (nucl-ex/0603026)

  17. "The Origin of the Difference Between Multiplicities in e+e- annihilation and heavy ion collisions", By J. Cleymans, M. Stankiewicz, P. Steinberg, S. Wheaton (submitted to Physics Letters B, nucl-th/0506027)

  18. "Physical Reflections on the World Year in Physics, Near-Perfect Fluids, and Quantum Diaries", presentation given to Brookhaven Executive Roundtable, June 8, 2005 (PDF).

  19. "RHIC Results on the Thermochemistry and Hydrodynamics of the Strong Interaction" Seminar given at BNL Chemistry Department, May 20, 2005 (PDF).

  20. "Some RHIC Advice for LHC Day-1 Physics" Talk given at ATLAS Week, CERN, Geneva February 14-18, 2005 (PPT)

  21. "Particle Multiplicities in Heavy Ion Collisions" Invited talk at Group on Hadron Physics 2004 (GHP2004), Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, October 24-26, 2004, (PPT)

  22. "Stranger in a Strange Land (Conference Summary)" Invited talk at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2004 (SQM2004), Cape Town, South Africa, Sept 15-20, 2004 (PPT)

  23. "Thoughts on Heavy Quark Production" Invited talk at Hot Quarks 2004 (HQ2004), Taos, New Mexico, July 18-24, 2004 (PPT)

  24. "Bulk Dynamics in Heavy Ion Collisions" Invited talk at INPC 2004, Goteborg, Sweden, June 28 - July 2, 2004 (PPT)

  25. "Landau Hydrodynamics & RHIC Phenomenology" presented at 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Jamaica, March 14-21, 2004 (PPT)

  26. "The Landscape of the Strong Interaction: Results from PHOBOS" presented at Yale University, February 19, 2004 (PPT)

  27. "The Landscape of the Strong Interaction: Recent Results from PHOBOS" presented at Quark Matter 2004, Oakland, CA, January 11-18, 2004 (PPT)

  28. "High pT Physics at RHIC: Glauber Summary" presented at the RIKEN workshop "High-pT Physics at RHIC", Brookhaven National Laboratory, December 2-6, 2003 (PPT)

  29. "Landau Hydrodynamics & RHIC Phenomenology" presented at RIKEN/BNL Workshop on Flow & QGP Properties, November 17-19, 2003 (PPT)

  30. "Experimental Status of Parton Saturation at RHIC" a different talk than the one below, presented at Brookhaven Workshop on Forward Physics at RHIC (PPT)

  31. "Experimental Status of Parton Saturation" presented at International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Krakow, Poland, September 5-11, 2003 (PPT)

  32. "Has RHIC discovered the Quark-Gluon Plasma?" presented at SAIP2003, Stellenbosch, June 25-27, 2003 (PPT)

  33. "Dynamics of Soft Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions" presented at CIPANP2003, New York, May 19-23, 2003 (PPT)

  34. "Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics: Results from AGS to RHIC" presented at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, August 14, 2002 (PPT)

  35. "Universal Behavior of Charged Particle Production in Heavy Ion Collisions" presented at Quark Matter 2002, Nantes, France, July 18-24, 2002 (PPT)

  36. "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Recent Results" presented at Physics In Collision XXII, Stanford, CA, June 20-22, 2002 (PPT) [nucl-ex/0210009]

  37. "Everything Counts: Multiplicity Measurements in High Energy Collisions" presented at ITP Workshop "QCD in the RHIC Era", April 8-12, 2002 (PPT, Other)

  38. "Centrality Dependence of the Charged Particle Multiplicity near Mid-Rapidity in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 130 and 200 GeV". [nucl-ex/0201005] (PS)

  39. "Counting on QCD: Multiplicity Measurements in High-Energy Collisions" presented at BNL Physics Department Colloquium, December 4, 2001 (PPT)

  40. "RHIC: QCD Matter in the Laboratory" presented at George Washington University, Washington, DC, November 15, 2001 (PPT [Seminar PPT)

  41. "Systematics of Charged Particle Production from 3 to 200 GeV" presented at ISMD2001, Datong, China, September 1-7, 2001 (PPT, PS, TAR)

  42. "Energy dependence of particle multiplicities in central Au+Au collisions". [nucl-ex/0108009]

  43. "A Tale of Two Glauber Calculations: Monte Carlo and Optical Limit Approaches" presented at Glauber2001, BNL, July 19, 2001 (PPT).

  44. "Charged-Particle Pseudorapidity Density Distributions from Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=130 GeV". [nucl-ex/0106006]

  45. "Elliptic Flow and Particle Ratios with PHOBOS" presented at RHIC/INT2001, Berkeley, CA, May 31 - June 2, 2001 (PPT, JPG ).

  46. "Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=130 GeV". [nucl-ex/0105011], Accepted to Physial Review C - Rapid Communications (12/6/01)

  47. "RHIC Rapporteur II: Global and Flow Observables" presented at QM2001, Stony Brook, NY, January 14-20,2001 (PDF, PPT). [nucl-ex/0105013]

  48. "Results from the PHOBOS Experiment at RHIC" presented at DNP2000, Williamsburg, VA, Oct 4-7, 2000 (PPT).

  49. "Charged particle multiplicity near mid-rapidity in central Au + Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 56 GeV and 130 GeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3100 (2000). [hep-ex/0007036].

  50. "Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates in 158 AGeV Pb+Pb Collisions", Phys. Lett. B420: 169-179 (1998), [hep-ex/9710015], and PhD Thesis

Lectures I gave at UCT on various aspects of particle and unclear physics (aimed at youngish graduate students) can be found here:

  1. 5/8/02 "PHOBOS Experiment at RHIC" (HTML, PPT)
  2. 6/8/02 "A Brief Intro to Heavy Ion Physics" (HTML, PPT)
  3. 13/8/02 "The Parton Model & QCD" (HTML, PPT)
  4. 16/8/02 "Introduction to Hadronization" (HTML, PPT)
  5. 30/8/02 "Introduction to the Glauber Model" (HTML, PPT)
  6. 10/9/02 "Scaling of Particle Yields I" (HTML, PPT)
  7. 12/9/02 "Scaling of Particle Yields II" (HTML, PPT)

I have previously worked as a:

  • Post-doc for Columbia University (in the City of New York) on the PHENIX experiment (for W.A. Zajc and B. Cole)
  • PhD student at MIT (in "our fair city" of Cambridge, MA) on the WA98 experiment at CERN (for B. Wyslouch and W. Busza)

If you are curious as to why I don't have a physics degree, you can read several essays I wrote while I studied Political Science at Yale University.