Claude Pruneau

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Faculty Profile

Professor
aa7526@wayne.edu

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Phone

313-577-1813

Office

 Rm 322, Physics Building, 666 W. Hancock, Detroit, MI 48201

Biography

  • Professor, Wayne State University, 2004-Present
  • Associate Professor, Wayne State University, 1998-2004
  • Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, 1993-98
  • Assistant Professor (Research), Wayne State University, 1992-93
  • Research Associate, McGill University, 1989-91
  • Research Associate, Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, 1987-89

Selected publications

Books

  • A. Claude A. Pruneau, Data Analysis Techniques for Physical Scientists, Published Fall 2017, Cambridge University Press
  • A. Seeds, Backman, Pruneau, Foundations of Astronomy, 3rd Edition, Wayne State Special Edition with 3 chapters from future book Exploring Astronomy; Book used in AST2010 (2016)
  • B. Seeds, Backman, Pruneau, Foundations of Astronomy, 2nd Edition, Wayne State Special Edition with 3 chapters from future book Exploring Astronomy; Book used in AST2010 (2014)
  • C. Seeds, Backman, Pruneau, Foundations of Astronomy, Wayne State Special Edition with 3 chapters from future book Exploring Astronomy; Book used in AST2010 (2013). 

Research papers (selected)

  • C. Pruneau, V. Gonzalez, B. Hanley, A. Marin and S. Basu, “Accounting for nonva- nishing net-charge with unified balance functions,” Phys. Rev. C 107 (2023) no.1, 014902, doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.107.014902
  • C. Pruneau, V. Gonzalez, B. Hanley, A. Marin and S. Basu, “Effects of Non-Vanishing Net Charge in Balance Functions,” [arXiv:2211.10770 [hep-ph]], Phys.Rev.C 107 (2023) 5, 054915.
  • S. Acharya et al. [ALICE], “Observation of flow angle and flow magnitude fluctuations in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV at the LHC", Phys.Rev.C 107 (2023) 5, L051901).
  • S. Acharya et al. [ALICE], General balance functions of identified charged hadron pairs of (π,K,p) in Pb–Pb collisions at
    sNN^1/2= 2.76 TeV, Phys.Lett.B 833 (2022) 137338.
  • S. Acharya et al. [ALICE],  Neutral to charged kaon yield fluctuations in Pb – Pb collisions at
    sNN^1/2=2.76 TeV, Phys.Lett.B 832 (2022) 137242
  • V. Gonzalez, S. Basu, P. Ladron De Guevara, A. Marin, J. Pan and C. A. Pruneau, “Extraction of the specific shear viscosity of quark-gluon plasma from two-particle transverse momentum correlations,” Eur. Phys. J. C 81, no.5, 465 (2021)
  • C. A. Pruneau, “Role of baryon number conservation in measurements of fluctuations,” Phys. Rev. C 100 (2019) no.3, 034905

 

Research Description

Experimental nuclear physics at RHIC and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located in CERN, Switzerland.

Affiliated Departments