Claude Pruneau
Professor
313-577-1813
Rm 322, Physics Building, 666 W. Hancock, Detroit, MI 48201
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Claude Pruneau
- 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
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
- Physics: Particle physics, high energy nuclear physics, Astrophysics
- Computing: Data analysis techniques
- Mathematics: Probability and statistics
Education
- B.S. Physics, Universite Laval (Quebec City)
- M.Sc. Physics, Universite Laval (Quebec City)
- Ph.D. Physics, Universite Laval (Quebec City)
Awards and grants
- Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship 2024 award
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2022
- Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Awards, 2019
- Research funded by the US Department of Energy/Nuclear Science Office
- Fellowship FCAR (Quebec), 1986
- Fellowship National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ph.D.), 1984-1986
- Fellowship National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (M. Sc.), 1983-1984
- Wayne State University, College of Science Teaching Award 2003.
- Wayne State University 2006 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Nominated for the Michigan President Council Excellence in Teaching award (2007)
- Richard J. Barber Faculty/Staff Recognition Award, Department of Physics (2009)
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 non-vnishing 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
Citation index
Up to date citation index at INSPIRE
- 732 papers found, 720 of them citeable
Citation summary results citeable papers publiished only.
- Average citations per paper: 118
- Breakdown of papers by citations:
- Renowned papers (500+) 27,
- Famous papers (250-499) 57,
- Very well-known papers (100-249) 143,
- Well-known papers (50-99) 145,
- Known papers (10-49) 212
- Less known papers (1-9) 104
- hHEP index [?] 151
Courses taught by Claude Pruneau
Fall Term 2024 (current)
- PHY8991 - Special Topics
- PHY2170 - University Physics for Scientists I
- PHY2175 - University Physics for Engineers I