Claude Pruneau

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. in Physics, Universite Laval (Quebec City)
• M.Sc. in Physics, Universite Laval (Quebec City)
• Ph.D. in 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 published 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

• PHY8991 - Special Topics
• PHY2170 - University Physics for Scientists I
• PHY2175 - University Physics for Engineers I

Winter Term 2024

• AST2010 - Descriptive Astronomy

Fall Term 2023

• PHY3100 - The Sounds of Music

Winter Term 2023

• AST5100 - Galaxies and the Universe