Sergei Voloshin

American physicist (born 1953)

Sergei Voloshin

Born|  (1953-02-18) February 18, 1953 (age 71)

Donetsk, Ukraine

Nationality| Russian, American
Alma mater| Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Known for| Relativistic heavy ion collisions
Awards| Fellow of American Physical Society, elected to WSU Academy of Scholars
Scientific career
Fields| Physics
Institutions| University of Heidelberg
University of Pittsburgh
LBNL
Wayne State University

Sergei Voloshin (born February 18, 1953) is a Russian-American experimental high-energy nuclear physicist and Professor of Physics at Wayne State University. He is best known for his work on event-by-event physics in heavy ion collisions.

## Career

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Sergei Voloshin studied physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, where he completed his PhD in nuclear physics in 1980 and became a faculty member at the Department of Theoretical Physics. During the period from 1992 to 1999 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Pittsburgh, Physikalische Institute (University of Heidelberg) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) where he worked on anisotropic flow and event-by-event physics in nuclear collisions at SPS and RHIC. In 1999 Dr. Voloshin joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wayne State University.

## Work

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One of the best known Voloshin's contribution is the analysis and interpretation of the so-called anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions.[1][2] He played a leading role in the discovery of the strong elliptic flow at RHIC.[3] Large elliptic flow, consistent with calculations from ideal hydrodynamics, was a key to the concept of strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma, a new form of matter discovered at RHIC. The idea of the constituent quark scaling, proposed by Voloshin, and its observation at RHIC is widely regarded as a proof for a deconfinement phase transition. His recent research interests include studies of possible local parity violation in strong interaction in heavy ion collisions.

Dr. Voloshin is a member of the STAR Collaboration performing experiments at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and the ALICE Collaboration at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

## Honors

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* Elected a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2008 "for numerous seminal contributions to the methods and interpretation of collective flow in relativistic nuclear collisions”.[4]
* Inducted to Wayne State University's Academy of Scholars in 2012.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Methods for analyzing anisotropic flow in relativistic nuclear collisions", A. M. Poskanzer and S. A. Voloshin, Physical Review C 58, (1998) 1671–1678.
2. ^ "Flow study in relativistic nuclear collisions by Fourier expansion of Azimuthal particle distributions", S. Voloshin, Y. Zhang, Zeitschrift für Physik 70 (1996) 665-672.
3. ^ Elliptic Flow in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV," STAR Collaboration, Physical Review Letters 86, (2001) 402–407.
4. ^ "Wayne State physics professor honored by American Physical Society". Wayne State University. May 23, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
5. ^ "Professor Sergei Voloshin Elected Member of WSU Academy of Scholars". Wayne State University. April 20, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2019.

## External links

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* Sergei Voloshin publications indexed by Google Scholar
* Homepage at Wayne State University
* The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
* The Alice Experiment at CERN
* STAR Experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory
* Scientific publications of Sergei Voloshin on INSPIRE-HEP

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* Google Scholar

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