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Prof. Boleslaw Wyslouch

Professor of Physics
Director, Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)
Director, Bates Linear Accelerator Center (BLAC)

Primary DLC

Department of Physics

MIT Room: 26-505
(617) 253-7800

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Experimental High Energy Physics
Computer Simulation and Construction of Silicon Detectors and Readout Electronics
Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Elementary Particle Physics
Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Study of Matter at Extreme Energy Density

Research Summary

Professor Wyslouch studies the interactions between the subatomic particles by looking at the violent collisions of heavy ions. He and his colleagues are hoping to observe the creation of a new state of nuclear matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma.

Recent Work

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