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Fries, Rainer Professor
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- Professor, Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences
My research focuses on quantum chromodynamics (QCD), perturbative QCD, QCD at high temperatures and densities, quark gluon plasma, scattering off hadrons and nuclei, and relativistic heavy ion collisions.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Kordell II, M., Fries, R. J., & Ko, C. M.
(2022).
Angular momentum eigenstates of the isotropic 3-D harmonic oscillator: Phase-space distributions and coalescence probabilities. ANNALS OF PHYSICS.
443, 168960-168960.
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Yang, Z., & Fries, R. J.
(2022).
Shear stress tensor and specific shear viscosity of hot hadron gas in nuclear collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
105(1), 014910.
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Cao, S., Chen, Y., Coleman, J., Mulligan, J., Jacobs, P. M., Soltz, R. A., ... Xu, Y.
(2021).
Determining the jet transport coefficient (q)over-cap from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
104(2), 024905.
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Everett, D., Ke, W., Paquet, J., Vujanovic, G., Bass, S. A., Du, L., ... Wolpert, R. L.
(2021).
Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
103(5), 054904.
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Everett, D., Ke, W., Paquet, J., Vujanovic, G., Bass, S. A., Du, L., ... JETSCAPE Collaboration.
(2021).
Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging. Physical Review Letters.
126(24), 242301.
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Kumar, A., Tachibana, Y., Pablos, D., Sirimanna, C., Fries, R. J., Majumder, A., ... Yang, Z.
(2020).
JETSCAPE framework: p plus p results. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
102(5), 054906.
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Adolfsson, J., Andronic, A., Bierlich, C., Bozek, P., Chakraborty, S., Christiansen, P., ... Zhao, W.
(2020).
QCD challenges from pp to A-A collisions. European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei.
56(11), 288.
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Fries, R. J., Chen, G., & Somanathan, S.
(2018).
Initial angular momentum and flow in high energy nuclear collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
97(3), 034903.
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ALbacete, J. L., Bielcikova, J., Fries, R. J., Jia, J., Mischke, A., Petersen, H., Ruan, L., & Salur, S.
(2017).
Hot Quarks 2016: Workshop for young scientists on the physics of ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
832(1), 011001-011001.
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Kapusta, J. I., Chen, G., Fries, R. J., & Li, Y.
(2016).
Early Time Dynamics of Gluon Fields in High Energy Nuclear Collisions. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
956, 553-556.
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Fries, R. J., Han, K., & Ko, C. M.
(2016).
Jet Hadronization via Recombination of Parton Showers in Vacuum and in Medium. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
956, 601-604.
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Han, K. C., Fries, R. J., & Ko, C. M.
(2016).
Jet fragmentation via recombination of parton showers. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
93(4), 045207.
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Chen, G., Fries, R. J., Kapusta, J. I., & Li, Y.
(2015).
Early-time dynamics of gluon fields in high energy nuclear collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
92(6), 064912.
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Albacete, J. L., Bielcikova, J., Fries, R. J., De Cassagnac, R. G., Hippolyte, B., Jia, J., ... Salur, S.
(2015).
Hot Quarks 2014: Workshop for young scientists on the physics of ultrarelativistic nucleusnucleus collisions. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
612(1), 011001-011001.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2015).
Modifications of heavy-flavor spectra in root(NN)-N-S=62.4 GeV Au-Au collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
91(2), 024904.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2014).
Heavy flavor at the large hadron collider in a strong coupling approach. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
735, 445-450.
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De, S., Fries, R. J., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2014).
Jet-triggered photons from back-scattering kinematics for quark gluon plasma tomography. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
90(3), 034911.
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Oezoender, S., & Fries, R. J.
(2014).
Rapidity profile of the initial energy density in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
89(3), 034902.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2013).
D(s) meson as a quantitative probe of diffusion and hadronization in nuclear collisions. Physical Review Letters.
110(11), 112301.
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Chen, G., & Fries, R. J.
(2013).
Global flow of glasma in high energy nuclear collisions. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
723(4-5), 417-421.
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Fries, R. J., De, S., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2013).
Jet-Tagged Back-Scattering Photons For Quark Gluon Plasma Tomography. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
910, 482-485.
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Fries, R. J., De, S., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2013).
Jet-Tagged Back-Scattering Photons For Quark Gluon Plasma Tomography. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
904, 569C-572C.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2013).
Non-perturbative Heavy-Flavor Transport at RHIC and LHC. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
910, 409-412.
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Albacete, J. L., Armesto, N., Baier, R., Barnafoeldi, G. G., Barrette, J., De, S., ... Zhang, W.
(2013).
PREDICTIONS FOR p plus Pb COLLISIONS AT root s(NN)=5 TeV. International Journal of Modern Physics E: nuclear physics.
22(4), 1330007-1330007.
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He, M., van Hees, H., Gossiaux, P. B., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2013).
Relativistic Langevin dynamics in expanding media. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics.
88(3), 032138.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2012).
Heavy-quark diffusion and hadronization in quark-gluon plasma. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
86(1), 014903.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2012).
Ideal hydrodynamics for bulk and multistrange hadrons in root s(NN)=200A GeV Au-Au collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
85(4), 044911.
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Fries, R. J., & Nonaka, C.
(2011).
Evaluating results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with perturbative QCD and hydrodynamics. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics.
66(3), 607-660.
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Fries, R. J., & Rodriguez, R.
(2011).
Event-by-event jet quenching and higher Fourier moments of hard probes. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
855(1), 424-427.
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Fries, R. J., He, M., & Rapp, R.
(2011).
Quark recombination and heavy quark diffusion in hot nuclear matter. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
38(12), 124068-124068.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2011).
Thermal relaxation of charm in hadronic matter. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
701(4), 445-450.
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Rodriguez, R., Fries, R. J., & Ramirez, E.
(2010).
Event-by-event jet quenching. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
693(2), 108-113.
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He, M., Fries, R. J., & Rapp, R.
(2010).
Scaling of elliptic flow, recombination, and sequential freeze-out of hadrons in heavy-ion collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
82(3), 034907.
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Fries, R. J., Mueller, B., & Schaefer, A.
(2009).
Decoherence and entropy production in relativistic nuclear collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
79(3), 034904.
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Fries, R. J., Kunihiro, T., Mueller, B., Ohnishi, A., & Schaefer, A.
(2009).
From 0 to 5000 in 2 x 10(-24) seconds: Entropy production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
830(1-4), 519C-522C.
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Fries, R., Greco, V., & Sorensen, P.
(2008).
Coalescence Models for Hadron Formation from Quark-Gluon Plasma. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science.
58(1), 177-205.
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Liu, W., & Fries, R. J.
(2008).
Heavy quark production from jet conversions in a quark-gluon plasma. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
78(3), 037902.
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Majumder, A., Fries, R. J., & Mueller, B.
(2008).
Photon bremsstrahlung and diffusive broadening of a hard jet. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
77(6), 065209.
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Liu, W., & Fries, R. J.
(2008).
Probing nuclear matter with jet conversions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
77(5), 054902.
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Fries, R. J., Mueller, B., & Schaefer, A.
(2008).
Stress tensor and bulk viscosity in relativistic nuclear collisions. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
78(3), 034913.
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Fries, R. J.
(2007).
Hadron correlations and parton recombination. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
783(1-4), 125C-132C.
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Turbide, S., Gale, C., & Fries, R. J
(2006).
Azimuthal asymmetry of direct photons in high energy nuclear collisions. Physical Review Letters.
96(3), 032303.
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Bass, S. A., Fries, R. J., & Mller, B.
(2006).
Correlations in the Parton Recombination Model. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
774(1-4), 635-638.
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Fries, R. J., Kapusta, J. I., & Li, Y.
(2006).
From Color Fields to Quark Gluon Plasma. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
774(1-4), 861-864.
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Turbide, S., Gale, C., Srivastava, D. K., & Fries, R. J.
(2006).
High momentum dilepton production from jets in a quark gluon plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
74(1), 014903.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2005).
Centrality dependence of direct photons in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
72(4), 041902.
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Fries, R. J., Bass, S. A., & Mller, B.
(2005).
Correlated emission of hadrons from recombination of correlated partons. Physical Review Letters.
94(12), 122301.
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Hwa, R. C., Yang, C. B., & Fries, R. J.
(2005).
Forward production in d+Au collisions by parton recombination. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
71(2), 024902.
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Fries, R. J.
(2005).
Hadron correlations from recombination and fragmentation. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
31(4), s379-S392.
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Fries, R. J.
(2005).
Hadron production at RHIC: recombination of quarks. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
9(1), 290-293.
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Nonaka, C., Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Bass, S. A., & Asakawa, M.
(2005).
Hadronization at RHIC: Interplay of Recombination and Fragmentation. Acta Physica Hungarica A) Heavy Ion Physics.
24(1-4), 227-233.
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Nonaka, C., Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Bass, S. A., & Asakawa, M.
(2005).
Recombination plus fragmentation model at RHIC: elliptic flow. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
31(4), s429-S435.
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Mller, B., Fries, R. J., & Bass, S. A.
(2005).
Thermal recombination: Beyond the valence quark approximation. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
618(1-4), 77-83.
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Nonaka, C., Fries, R. J., & Bass, S. A.
(2004).
Elliptic flow of multi-strange particles: fragmentation, recombination and hydrodynamics. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
583(1-2), 73-78.
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Nonaka, C., Mller, B., Asakawa, M., Bass, S. A., & Fries, R. J.
(2004).
Elliptic flow of resonances in relativistic heavy ion collisions: Probing final state interactions and the structure of resonances. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
69(3), 031902-031901.
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Fries, R. J., & Mller, B.
(2004).
Heavy ions at LHC: Theoretical issues. 34(Suppl 1), s279-s285.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Nonaka, C., & Bass, S. A.
(2003).
Hadronization in heavy-ion collisions: recombination and fragmentation of partons. Physical Review Letters.
90(20), 202303.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2003).
High-energy photons from passage of jets through Quark-Gluon plasma. Physical Review Letters.
90(13), 132301.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Nonaka, C., & Bass, S. A.
(2003).
Hadron production in heavy ion collisions: Fragmentation and recombination from a dense parton phase. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
68(4), 449021-4490223.
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Srivastava, D. K., Gale, C., & Fries, R. J
(2003).
Large mass dileptons from the passage of jets through a quark gluon plasma. Physical Review C: Nuclear Physics.
67(3), 349031-349038.
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Fries, R. J., Schfer, A., & Weiss, C.
(2003).
Polarized antiquark flavor asymmetry documentclass[12pt]{minimal} usepackage{amsmath} usepackage{wasysym} usepackage{amsfonts} usepackage{amssymb} usepackage{amsbsy} usepackage{mathrsfs} usepackage{upgreek} setlength{oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$mathrm{Delta \bar u (x) - Delta \bar d(x)}$end{document} and the pion cloud. European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei.
17(4), 509-512.
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Fries, R. J.
(2003).
Resummation of nuclear enhanced higher twist in the Drell-Yan process. Physical Review D.
68(7), 074013.
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Braun, V., Fries, R. J., Mahnke, N., & Stein, E.
(2000).
Higher twist distribution amplitudes of the nucleon in QCD. Nuclear Physics B.
589(1-2), 381-409.
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Fries, R. J., Schfer, A., Stein, E., & Mller, B.
(2000).
Nuclear enhanced higher-twist effects in the DrellYan process. Nuclear Physics B.
582(1-3), 537-570.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Schfer, A., & Stein, E.
(1999).
Angular Dependence of the Nuclear Enhancement of Drell-Yan Pairs. Physical Review Letters.
83(21), 4261-4264.
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Fries, R. J., & Schfer, A.
(1998).
Polarized mesons and the asymmetry between d(x) and (x) in the sea of the nucleon. Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
443(1-4), 40-44.
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Fries, R. J., & Schfer, A.
(1998).
Skyrme model NN form factor and the sea quark distribution of the nucleon. PHYSICAL REVIEW C.
57(6), 3470-3472.
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Kordell II, M., Fries, R. J., & Ko, C. M.
(2022).
Angular momentum eigenstates of the isotropic 3-D harmonic oscillator: Phase-space distributions and coalescence probabilities. ANNALS OF PHYSICS.
443, 168960-168960.
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conference paper
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Yang, Z., & Fries, R. J.
(2017).
A Blast Wave Model With Viscous Corrections. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012056-012056.
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Fries, R. J., Han, K., & Ko, C. M.
(2016).
Jet Hadronization via Recombination of Parton Showers in Vacuum and in Medium. Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings.
297-300.
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De, S.
(2015).
QCD Back-Scattering Photons in Relativistic Heavy ion Collisions. Proceedings- Indian National Science Academy.
217-222.
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Fries, R. J., & Chen, G.
(2015).
The Initial Flow of Classical Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012007-012007.
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Chen, G., & Fries, R. J.
(2014).
Transverse Flow of Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collision. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012014-012014.
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Rodriguez, R., & Fries, R. J.
(2013).
Azimuthal Asymmetries From Jets Quenched In Fluctuating Backgrounds. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012003-012003.
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Chen, G., & Fries, R. J.
(2013).
Initial Conditions with Flow from a McLerran Venugopalan model with Transverse Dynamics. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012021-012021.
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Han, K. C., Fries, R. J., & Ko, C. M.
(2013).
Jet Fragmentation via Recombination of Parton Showers. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012044-012044.
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Fries, R. J.
(2010).
High energy nuclear collisions: Theory overview. Pramana: journal of physics.
235-245.
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Fries, R. J.
(2010).
Quark recombination in heavy ion collisions. PoS - Proceedings of Science.
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Fries, R. J.
(2009).
Hadron Chemistry at High P-T with Identified Particles. AIP Conference Proceedings.
751-754.
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Fries, R.
(2009).
High momentum probes of nuclear matter. PoS - Proceedings of Science.
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Fries, R. J., & Liu, W.
(2009).
High-P-T Physics with Identified Particles. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
693C-696C.
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Fries, R. J.
(2008).
Quark and gluon degrees of freedom in high-energy heavy ion collisions. NUCLEAR PHYSICS A.
242C-249C.
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Fries, R. J.
(2007).
Early time evolution of high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
S851-S854.
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Fries, R. J.
(2006).
Hadronization of dense partonic matter. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
s151-S158.
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Fries, R. J.
(2005).
Forward Production in d+Au Collisions by Parton Recombination. AIP Conference Proceedings.
299-302.
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Fries, R. J.
(2005).
Hadron correlations from recombination. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
70-79.
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Fries, R. J., Mller, B., Nonaka, C., & Bass, S. A.
(2004).
Hadronization in heavy-ion collisions: recombination or fragmentation?. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
s223-S228.
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Fries, R. J.
(2004).
Recombination models. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
s853-S860.
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Gale, C., Awes, T. C., Fries, R. J., & Srivastava, D. K.
(2004).
The electromagnetic signature of jets. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.
s1013-S1016.
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Yang, Z., & Fries, R. J.
(2017).
A Blast Wave Model With Viscous Corrections. Journal of Physics : Conference Series.
012056-012056.
Research
principal investigator on
- New Directions in High Energy Nuclear Physics awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2021
- SI2-SSI: Collaborative Research: Jet Energy-Loss Tomography with a Statistically and Computationally Advanced Program Envelope (JETSCAPE) (JETSCAPE) awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2016 - 2020
- Comprehensive Studies of Extreme Phases of Nuclear Matter awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2015 - 2018
- Proposal for A Topical Collaboration On Quantitative Jet and Electromagnetic Tomography (jet) of Extreme Phases of Matter In awarded by United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2010 - 2015
- Career: New Theoretical Developments In High Energy Nuclear Collisions awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2009 - 2015
Teaching
teaching activities
- PHYS101 Freshman Physics Orient Instructor
- PHYS102 Freshman Phys Orient Ii Instructor
- PHYS206 Newtonian Mechanics Engr & Sci Instructor
- PHYS285 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHYS291 Research Instructor
- PHYS485 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHYS491 Hnr-research Instructor
- PHYS606 Quantum Mechanics Instructor
- PHYS615 Meth Of Thrtcl Phys I Instructor
- PHYS681 Seminar Instructor
- PHYS685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHYS691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Chen, Guangyao (2013-08). Initial Conditions from Color Glass Condensate.
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Somanathan, Sidharth (2016-08). Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics for Nuclear Collisions and Applications to Thermalizing Color Glass.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 2001
- M.S. in Mathematics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 1998
- M.Sc. in Physics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 1998
awards and honors
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, conferred by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States), 2009
- Montague Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Scholar, conferred by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States), 2009
- The Young Scientist Prize, conferred by International Union of Pure and Applied Physics - (Singapore, Singapore), 2007
Contact
first name
- Rainer
has last name
- Fries
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Physics And Astronomy
3366 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3366
USA
Other
- rjfries@tamu.edu