Sean Gavin
Professor
Interim Department Chair
313-577-0156
Physics Building, Room 320
666 W Hancock, Detroit, MI 48201
Department
Sean Gavin
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Theoretical nuclear physics: quark gluon plasma, high energy nuclear collisions, quantum chromodynamics
Education
- B.Sc. in Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1980
- M.Sc. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981
- Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987
Awards and grants
- National Science Foundation PHY-1207687
- 2010 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010
- 2007 Career Development Chair, Wayne State University
- 2006 Richard J. Barber Faculty Award, Department of Physics, Wayne State University
- 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE); Awarded June 2005 at the White House, Washington D.C.
- County of Wayne, Michigan passed a resolution on August 4, 2005 honoring my accomplishments
- 2004 NSF CAREER Award
- 2002 College of Science Teaching Award
- 1997 McMinn Distinguished Lectureship, Vanderbilt University
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