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November 12, 2021
On November 12, 2021, David Stewart successfully defended the thesis: “Jet to Event Activity Correlations in Small System Collisions at STAR”.  (Advisor: Helen Caines)...
November 5, 2021
The Yale University Physics Department officially welcomed 28 newly-declared undergraduate majors in physics, physics (intensive), physics and philosophy, and mathematics and...
November 1, 2021
The Yale Physics department has joined the presence on West Campus with the labs of Eduardo da Silva Neto, assistant professor in physics, and Steven Konezny, associate...
October 29, 2021
Graduate student Emily Kuhn has been awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship for her proposal “Instrument Development for Next-Generation Radio Telescopes”. ...
The STAR detector at RHIC with a superimposed image showing particle tracks emerging from a nuclear collision as picked up by the detector. Credit: US Department of Energy
October 29, 2021
By Jim Shelton The hunt continues for a physics phenomenon known as the “chiral magnetic effect” (CME). Physicists from the international STAR Collaboration, based at...