Heavy-Ion Physics
My PhD research (MIT 1999-2005) was in relativistic heavy-ion physics. I was a member of the PHOBOS collaboration, an experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island.
PhD Thesis
Identified Particle Transverse Momentum Distributions from Au+Au Collisions at 62.4 GeV per Nucleon PairConor Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Prof Gunther M Roland
Submitted 7 July 2005
Selected Papers in Heavy-Ion Physics
Identified hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 62.4 GeV
BB Back et al, submitted to Phys Rev C; arXiv:nucl-ex/0610001
Centrality dependence of charged hadron transverse momentum spectra in Au+Au collisions from sqrt(s_NN) = 62.4 to 200 GeV
BB Back et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 082304 (2005)
Centrality Dependence of the Charged Hadron Transverse Momentum Spectra in d+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV
BB Back et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 072302 (2003)
Charged hadron transverse momentum distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
BB Back et al, Phys. Lett. B578, 297 (2004)
Ratios of charged particles to antiparticles near mid-rapidity in {Au+Au} collisions at sqrt(s_NN)= 130 GeV
BB Back et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 102301 (2001)
Conference Talks and Posters
Charged Hadron p_T Spectra from Au+Au Collisions at 62.4 GeV
Contributed talk at APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting,
29 October 2004, Chicago, IL.
Charged Hadron pT Spectra from PHOBOS
Participant presentation at the 16th Summer School in Nuclear Physics,
13-25 June 2004, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME.
Strangeness Production in PHOBOS
Invited talk at RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting 'Workshop on Strangeness and Exotica at RHIC',
14 May 2004, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY.
A High-p_T Spectrometer Trigger for PHOBOS
Contributed Poster at Quark Matter 2004,
12-17 January 2004, Oakland, CA.
Charged Hadron Transverse Momentum Distributions at High pT in Au+Au Collisions at 200 GeV
Contributed talk at APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting,
10 October 2002, Lansing, MI.
Measurement of Charged Antiparticle to Particle Ratios by the PHOBOS Detector
Contributed talk at American Physical Society April Meeting,
30 April 2001, Washington DC.