Research Interests

Aaron Angerami’s background is in the field of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, which sits at the intersection of nuclear and particle physics. He is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. More recently, he joined the sPHENIX Collaboration, which will perform measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the near future.

Angerami’s research interests involve using relativistic heavy-ion collisions to study nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and densities and the properties of the strong interaction at high energy. This includes methods to study the novel form of strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions known as the quark-gluon plasma. One such method utilizes the phenomenon of jet quenching, in which highly energetic quarks and gluons produced at early times become attenuated as they traverse the hot matter, thus providing insight into its microscopic structure. He is also interested in a special class of heavy-ion collisions, known as ultra-peripheral collisions, in which the strong electromagnetic fields associated with relativistic ion beams serve as sources of high-energy photons that provide precise probes of the quark and gluon structure of the nucleus.

Ph.D. Physics, Columbia University, 2012

M.Phil. Physics, Columbia University, 2009

M.A. Physics, Columbia University, 2008

B.S. Applied Physics, Columbia University, 2006

• ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of Light-by-Light Scattering in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 052001, arXiv:1904.03536 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Acoplanarity for Muon Pairs produced via two-photon scattering in Pb+Pb collisions at  √SNN= 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 212301, arXiv:1806.08708 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of jet pT correlations in Pb+Pb and pp collisions at √SNN= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B774 (2017) 379–402, arXiv:1706.09363 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurements of the Nuclear Modification Factor for Jets in Pb+Pb Collisions at √SNN= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 072302, arXiv:1411.2357 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle Dependence of Inclusive Jet Yields in Pb+Pb Collisions at √SNN= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 (2013) 152301, arXiv:1306.6469 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Measurement of the jet radius and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive jet suppression in lead–lead collisions at √SNN= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector, Phys. Lett. B 719 (2013) 220, arXiv:1208.1967 [hep-ex].
• ATLAS Collaboration, Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead–Lead Collisions at √SNN= 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 252303, arXiv:1011.6182 [hep-ex].

• ATLAS Thesis Award, 2013
• Springer Thesis Award, 2013