John Harris

John Harris is the D. Allan Bromley Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Yale University. His research focuses on Nuclear Physics, particularly the study of high energy density Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) created in relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. His work explores the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a deconfined phase of matter predicted to have existed shortly after the Big Bang. Harris has been involved in major experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including the STAR experiment at Brookhaven and the ALICE experiment at CERN. He was the founding spokesperson for STAR from 1991 to 2002 and has held leadership roles in the ALICE Collaboration. His research also includes the design of experiments for the Electron Ion Collider.

John W. Harris is a Professor of Physics at Yale University, specializing in experimental nuclear and particle physics. His research focuses on the study of high-energy collisions, particularly in heavy-ion and proton-nucleus interactions, to explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and the dynamics of strongly interacting matter. Harris has contributed extensively to experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), analyzing phenomena such as elliptic flow, hadron suppression, and global polarization. His work addresses the centrality dependence of particle production and the transverse momentum distribution of hadrons in extreme conditions.