Claude Pruneau

Claude Pruneau

Professor

313-577-1813

claude.pruneau@wayne.edu

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

Curriculum vitae

Media

Department

Physics and Astronomy

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

  • 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 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

 

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

Winter Term 2024 (current)

Fall Term 2023

Winter Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022