Profile

Zhang Hanzhong is currently a professor at Central China Normal University and the Deputy Director of the International Joint Research Center for Quark Matter and Detection Technology. He focuses on hot-spot issues of hard probe signals in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The jet tomography study of dihadron and photon-tagged hadron correlations conducted using the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD) parton model, known as the ZOWW model, has made theoretical predictions that have been confirmed by large international experimental collaborations at RHIC/LHC. Centering on key issues such as the extraction of jet transport coefficients, he provides new ideas and predictions for quantitative studies of jet quenching and opens up new avenues for researching jet transverse momentum broadening through the application of Sudakov resummation techniques. His research on jet tomography in both longitudinal and transverse dimensions within QGP, and the analysis of the antisymmetric distribution of energy within the overall jet cone, contributes to understanding the high-temperature and high-density properties of the deep and surface layers of QGP.

Education Background

2004, Ph.D., Central China Normal University

1988, Yangtze University

Work Experience

2009-Present, Professor, Central China Normal University

2011-2012, Senior Visiting Scholar, Texas A&M University, USA

2007-2009, Postdoctoral Researcher, Shandong University

2004-2009, Lecturer/Associate Professor, Central China Normal University

1988-1999, Teacher, Shashi No.12 Middle School, Hubei Province

Honors and Awards

2018, First Prize of Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education

2010, Excellent Academic Paper Award in Natural Science, Wuhan City

2006, First Prize of Natural Science Award, Hubei Province

2005, Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, Hubei Province

Recent Publications (Last 5 Years)

1. M. Xie, WY Ke, HZ Zhang, XN Wang,“Global constraint on the jet transport coefficient from single-hadron, dihadron, and γ-hadron spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions”,Phys. Rev. C 109 (2024) 6, 06491.

2. A. Luo, YX Mao, GY Qin), EK Wang, HZ Zhang, “Enhancement of baryon-to-meson ratios around jets as a signature of medium response”, Phys. Lett. B 837 (2023) 137638.

3. A. Luo, YX Mao, GY Qin), EK Wang, HZ Zhang, “Jet shape and redistribution of the lost energy from jets in Pb + Pb collisions at the LHC in a multiphase transport model”, Eur. Phys. J. C 82 (2022) 2, 15.

4. M. Xie, XN Wang and HZ Zhang, “γ-hadron spectra in p+Pb collisions at \sqrt s =5.02 TeV”, Phys. Rev. C 103 (2021) 3, 034911.

5. L. Chen, SY Wei and HZ Zhang, “Probing jet medium interactions via Z(H) + jet momentum imbalances”, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 12, 1136.

Representative Articles (5)

1. HZ Zhang, JF Owens, EK Wang, XN Wang, “Dihadron tomography of highenergy nuclear collisions in next-to-leading order perturbative QCD”, Physical Review Letters, 2007, 98(21): 212301.

2. HZ Zhang, JF Owens, EK Wang, XN Wang, “Tomography of High-Energy NuclearCollisions with Photon-Hadron Correlations”, Physical Review Letters, 2009, 103(3): 03230.

3. ZQ Liu; HZ Zhang; BW Zhang; EK Wang ; “Quantifying jet transport properties via large $p_T$ hadron production”, Eur. Phys. J C, 2016, 76(20).

4. L. Chen; GY Qin; SY Wei; BW Xiao; HZ Zhang, “Probing transverse momentum broadening via dihadron and hadron-jet angular correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions”, Physics Letters B, 2017, 773: 672-676.

5. YX Xiao, YY He, LG Pang, HZ Zhang and XN Wang, “Asymmetric jet shapes with two-dimensional jet tomography”, Phys. Rev. C 109 (2024) 5, 054906