Sean Gavin

Faculty Profile

Department Chair
af7523@wayne.edu

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Secondary Title

Interim Department Chair

Phone

313-577-0156

Office

Physics Building, Room 320
666 W Hancock, Detroit, MI 48201

Selected publications

  • M. Cody, S. Gavin, B. Koch, M. Kocherovsky, Z., Mazloum, G. Moschelli, "Complementary Two-Particle Correlation Observables for Relativistic Nuclear Collisions," Phys. Rev. C 107 (2023) 1, 014909
  • S. Gavin, G. Moschelli, and C. Zin, "Rapidity correlation structures in nuclear collisions," Phys. Rev. C 94, 024921 (2016)
  • S. Gavin and G. Moschelli, "Fluctuation probes of early-time correlations in nuclear collisions," Phys. Rev. C 85, 014905 (2012)
  • S. Gavin and M. Abdel-Aziz, "Measuring shear viscosity using transverse momentum correlations in relativistic nuclear collisions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 162302 (2006)
  • S. Gavin, L. McLerran and G. Moschelli, "Long range correlations and the soft ridge in relativistic nuclear collisions," Phys. Rev. C 79, 051902 (2009)
  • S. Gavin, "Traces of thermalization from $p_t$ fluctuations in nuclear collisions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 162301 (2004)
  • C. Pruneau, S. Gavin and S. Voloshin, "Methods for the study of particle production fluctuations," Phys. Rev. C 66, 044904, (2002)
  • S. Gavin, A. Gocksch and R.D. Pisarski, "How to make large domains of disoriented chiral condensate," Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2143 (1994)
  • S. Gavin and R. Vogt, "Charmonium suppression by comover scattering in Pb + Pb collisions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1006 (1997)
  • S. Gavin, M. Gyulassy and A. Jackson,``Hadronic J/psi suppression In ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions," Phys. Lett. B 207, 257 (1988)
  • S. Gavin, "Transport coefficients In ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions," Nucl. Phys. A435 (1985) 826

Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught

  • 2010 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2002 College of Science Teaching Award

Research Description

theoretical physics: quark-gluon plasma, relativistic heavy ion collisions, QCD phenomenology, nuclear physics

Affiliated Departments