Jean-François Paquet
[ jean-francois.paquet@vanderbilt.edu ]
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Previous position:
Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Scientist
Department of Physics
Duke University
Durham, NC
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
Education:
Master's and PhD in Physics
Under the supervision of Prof. Charles Gale
McGill University, Montréal
Bachelor's degree in Physics
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
- Selected recent presentations:
- Nuclear collisions as seen through photons
Nuclear physics seminar (Nov 2022, MIT) - Flow and transport properties:
Assessment and outlook
Invited talk at the 2022 Hot and Cold QCD Town Hall meeting (Sept 2022, MIT) - Matching conditions across time evolution stages of ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
Plenary talk prepared for Initial Stages 2021 - Multi-system Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD
Parallel talk prepared for Quark Matter 2019 (Wuhan), on behalf of the JETSCAPE Collaboration
Publications:
A complete list of my publications is available on INSPIRE
[ INSPIRE
profile ], with links to the published versions and the (free)
arXiv
versions. Google
Scholar is also eerily good at finding my work.
For a general summary of my outlook on hydrodynamic modelling of
heavy ion collisions and electromagnetic probes, see arXiv:1704.07842
In the summer of 2018, I wrote a manual for the heavy ion hydrodynamic simulation code MUSIC as
support material for lectures I gave at a workshop at the University of São Paulo.
Since then, a new official version of MUSIC has been published,
and I updated the manual accordingly for this new version: here.
The older version of MUSIC is still usable, of course; its manual remains available here.
While it is MUSIC-oriented, the manual should provide a good overview of the physics behind hydrodynamic simulations of heavy ion collisions in general.
- Theses:
- Master's Photon and neutral pion production in d+Au collisions at RHIC
- PhD Characterizing the non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma with photons and hadrons
Physics software:
Mathematica codes to compute the rate of photon production and the rate of radiative parton energy loss at leading order in AMY kinetic theory
MUSIC:
a relativistic viscous hydrodynamics code for heavy ion collisions [Sourceforge
project - Git repository - Manual ]
KøMPøST:
a kinetic theory propagator for the early stage of heavy ion collisions
My GitHub
Collaborations:
I am currently co-convener of the "Simulations and Distributed Computing Working Group" (SIMS-WG)
within the multi-institution NSF-funded JETSCAPE Collaboration. You can see some of our work here:
- Phenomenological constraints on the transport properties of QCD matter with data-driven model averaging (2021, PRL, Editors' suggestion)
- Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter (2021, PRC)
- Role of bulk viscosity in deuteron production in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions
- Quark Matter 2019 presentation
We also made an online "widget" to allow the community to see the effect of various physical and model parameters on measurable properties of low energy hadrons produced in heavy ion collisions.
You can see the result here: http://jetscape.org/sims-widget/. The source code is available here.