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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pathbreaking research on the properties of hot, dense hadronic matter, especially strangeness enhancement in the search for quark deconfinement, and seminal research into the vacuum state in supercritical fields

Overview

Johann Rafelski is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their recent scholarly output includes papers such as "Discovery of Quark-Gluon Plasma: Strangeness Diaries" (2020, The European Physical Journal Special Topics), "A Short Survey of Matter-Antimatter Evolution in the Primordial Universe" (2023, Universe), among others. These publications reflect ongoing interests in high-energy phenomena and cosmological processes.

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Cheng Tao Yang, Andrew Steinmetz, Martin Formánek, Christopher Grayson, and Stefan Evans. These coauthors have worked with Rafelski on a variety of topics in theoretical and experimental physics.

Johann Rafelski's work has been disseminated through various publication venues that are prominent within the physics community. Notable frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), The European Physical Journal Special Topics, Physical Review D, Annals of Physics, and Acta Physica Polonica A.

The main research topics that characterize Rafelski's scientific work comprise:

  • High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

In addition to journal articles, they have authored a book titled Hadrons and Quark-Gluon Plasma published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Throughout their career, Johann Rafelski has received recognition such as being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011. The citation for this honor references their research on the properties of hot, dense hadronic matter, including work on strangeness enhancement related to quark deconfinement and studies of the vacuum state in supercritical fields.

Best Publications

  • Strangeness Production in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

    Johann Rafelski;Berndt Müller

  • Strangeness in relativistic heavy ion collisions

    P. Koch;Berndt Muller;Johann Rafelski

  • Observation of cold nuclear fusion in condensed matter

    S. E. Jones;E. P. Palmer;J. B. Czirr;D. L. Decker

  • Enhanced $J/\psi$ production in deconfined quark matter

    Robert L. Thews;Martin Schroedter;Johann Rafelski

  • ALICE: Physics Performance Report, Volume II

    P. Cortese;G. Dellacasa;L. Ramello;M. Sitta

  • Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC-Last call for predictions

    N. Armesto;N. Borghini;S. Jeon;U. A. Wiedemann

  • Hot hadronic matter and nuclear collisions

    R. Hagedorn;J. Rafelski

  • Strange anti-baryons from quark-gluon plasma

    Johann Rafelski

  • Phase-space structure of the Dirac vacuum

    Iwo Bialynicki-Birula;Pawel Górnicki;Johann Rafelski

  • SHARE: Statistical hadronization with resonances

    Giorgio Torrieri;Steve Steinke;Wojciech Broniowski;Wojciech Florkowski

  • Fermions and bosons interacting with arbitrarily strong external fields

    Johann Rafelski;Lewis P. Fulcher;Abraham Klein

  • Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields: With an Introduction into Modern Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

    Walter Greiner;Johann Rafelski;Berndt Müller

  • Erratum: Strangeness Production in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (Physical Review Letters)

    Johann Rafelski;Berndt Mller

  • Solution of the Dirac Equation for Strong External Fields

    Berndt Müller;Heinrich Peitz;Johann Rafelski;Walter Greiner

  • Strangeness conservation in hot nuclear fireballs.

    Jean Letessier;Ahmed Tounsi;Ulrich Heinz;Josef Sollfrank

  • The importance of the reaction volume in hadronic collisions

    Johann Rafelski;Michael Danos

  • Fusion reactions initiated by laser-accelerated particle beams in a laser-produced plasma

    C. Labaune;C. Baccou;S. Depierreux;C. Goyon

  • Strange hadron resonances as a signature of freeze-out dynamics

    Giorgio Torrieri;Johann Rafelski

  • Pocketbook of mathematical functions

    Michael Danos;Johann Rafelski

  • Effect of dynamical QCD medium on radiative heavy-quark energy loss

    M Djordjevic;U Heinz

Frequent Co-Authors

Berndt Müller
Berndt Müller Duke University
Walter Greiner
Walter Greiner Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Anthony W. Thomas
Anthony W. Thomas University of Adelaide
Horst Stöcker
Horst Stöcker Goethe University Frankfurt
Miklos Gyulassy
Miklos Gyulassy Columbia University
Guy Paic
Guy Paic National Autonomous University of Mexico
Dirk H. Rischke
Dirk H. Rischke Goethe University Frankfurt
Krzysztof Redlich
Krzysztof Redlich University of Wrocław
Dmitri E. Kharzeev
Dmitri E. Kharzeev Stony Brook University
Bin Zhang
Bin Zhang Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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