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Fries, Rainer

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Professor, Physics and Astronomy, College of Science

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rjfries@tamu.edu

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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.

education and training

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 2001
M.Sc. in Physics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 1998
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Regensburg - (Regensburg, Bayern, Germany) 1998

selected publications

Academic Articles30

Cao, S., Chen, Y., Coleman, J., Mulligan, J., Jacobs, P. M., Soltz, R. A., ... Xu, Y. (2021). Determining the jet transport coefficient q̂ from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation. Physical Review C. 104(2), 024905.
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.
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.. Phys Rev Lett. 126(24), 242301.
Kumar, A., Tachibana, Y., Pablos, D., Sirimanna, C., Fries, R. J., Majumder, A., ... Yang, Z. (2020). JETSCAPE framework: p+p results. Physical Review C. 102(5), 054906.
Adolfsson, J., Andronic, A., Bierlich, C., Bozek, P., Chakraborty, S., Christiansen, P., ... Zhao, W. (2020). QCD challenges from pp to A–A collisions. The European Physical Journal A. 56(11), 288.

Conference Papers21

Yang, Z., & Fries, R. J. (2017). A Blast Wave Model With Viscous Corrections. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 832(1), 012056-012056.
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. 276-278, 297-300.
De, S. (2015). QCD Back-Scattering Photons in Relativistic Heavy ion Collisions. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy. 81(1), 217-222.
Fries, R. J., & Chen, G. (2015). The Initial Flow of Classical Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 589(1), 012007-012007.
Chen, G., & Fries, R. J (2014). Transverse Flow of Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collision. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 535(1), 012014-012014.