Rudolph C. Hwa

Rudolph Hwa's research interests have covered a wide variety of topics that include particle, nuclear, statistical and nonlinear physics. A large part of his work is in the area of strong interaction in hadronic and nuclear collisions at high energies. Excursions to other areas include quantum optics (1994), chaos (mid 90s), heartbeat irregularity (late 90s), human EEG and stroke detection (early 00s), and critical fluctuation in turbulence (mid 00s). Recent activities have concentrated mainly on the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Listed below are some sample papers (after 1990) that are selected out of around 300 publications.

Some selected publications:

1. R.C. Hwa, "Fractal Measures in Multiparticle Production," Phys.  Rev. D 41, 1456

(1990).

2. R.C. Hwa and M.T. Nazirov, "Intermittency in Second-Order Phase Transitions," Phys.  Rev. Lett.  69, 741 (1992).

3. R.C. Hwa, "Scaling exponent of multiplicity fluctuation in phase transition," Phys.

Rev. D 47, 2773 (1993).

4. I.M. Dremin and R.C. Hwa, "Quark and Gluon Jets in QCD:  Factorial and Cumulant Moments," Phys.  Rev. D 49, 5805 (1994).

5. R.C. Hwa and Z. Cao, "Fluctuations of Spatical Patterns as a Measure of Classical Chaos," Phys. Rev. E 56, 326 (1997).

6. R.C. Hwa, "Chaos, Phase Transition and Cardiac Pathology," in Correlations and Fluctuations 98, edited by T. Csorgo, S. Hegyi, G. Jancso, and R.C. Hwa (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999), p. 481.

7. R.C. Hwa, "Fluctuation Index as a Measure of Heartbeat Irregularity," Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems  3, 93 (2000).

8. R.C. Hwa and T.C. Ferree, "Scaling Properties of Fluctuations in the Human Electroencephalogram," Phys. Rev. E  66, 021901 (2002). 

9. R.C. Hwa and C.B. Yang, "Scaling Behavior at High p_T and the  p/pi Ratio,"  Phys. Rev. C 67, 034902 (2003). 

10. R.C. Hwa, "A universal approach to the study of nonlinear systems," Physica A 338, 1 (2004).

11. R.C. Hwa and C.B. Yang, "Recombination of shower partons at high p_T in heavy-ion collisions," Phys. Rev. C 70, 024905 (2004). 

12. R.C. Hwa and C.B. Yang, "Final-state interaction as the origin of the Cronin effect," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 082302 (2004).

13. R.C. Hwa, C. B. Yang, S. Bershadskii, J.J. Niemela, and K.R Sreenivasan, "Critical fluctuation of wind reversals in convective turbulence," Phys. Rev. E 72, 066308 (2005).

14. R.C. Hwa and Z. Tan, "Associated particle distributions in jets produced in heavy-ion collisions," Phys. Rev. C 72, 057902 (2005).

15. R.C. Hwa and C.B. Yang, "Proton Enhancement at large p_T at the CERN Large Hadron Collider without structure in associated-particle distribution," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 042301 (2006).