Faculty - Dr. Edmundo Garcia

Contact Information Phone: (773) 995-2325 Email: edmundo.garcia@csu.edu Office: HWH-334

Education B.S., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Ph.D., University of Maryland University of Maryland Institute for Physical Science and Technology Postdoctoral fellowship, Brookhaven National Laboratory & University of Maryland

 

Research Interests

My area of scientific research is experimental high-energy nuclear physics, also often called high-energy "heavy-ion" physics.  This research is primarily carried out at CERN, in Geneva Switzerland.  We utilize large particle accelerators (or colliders) to collide "heavy-ion" nuclei such as gold and lead traveling at near the speed of light in order to re-create the conditions of the early universe in the laboratory.  By doing this we are able to melt normal nuclear matter, the protons, and neutrons, into a "plasma" of quarks and gluons in order to study, and better understand, the strong force and the theory of Quantum Chromo-Dynamics.

Representative Presentations & Publications

• Garcia, E., Cesalien, O., Harton, A., & Sagerer, J. (2022). Detector development tests for the NAUM (Non-invasive Archaeometry Using Muons) program. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
• Stempek, R., Morgan, I., Melikyan, Y., Slupecki, M., Harton, A., & Garcia-Solis, E. (2020). Acceptance tests of Fast Interaction Trigger modules for the upgrade of the ALICE experiment. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 65.

Representative Grants & Funding

• NSF Award to lead research in cutting-edge technology along with Dominican University (DU) through a $646,093 to map archaeological pyramid structures in Mexico.
• NSF Award of $225,000 to support the ALICE research program at CERN until the summer of 2016 "Studies of Relativistic heavy Ion Collisions in ALICE at the LHC

Memberships

• American Physical Society
• National Society of Hispanic Physicists

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