Bio

Long-term dedication to experimental research on the properties of strongly interacting matter and the QCD phase structure in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, achieving a series of innovative and original research results. In 2021, awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). From 2022 to 2024, selected for the global top 2% highly cited scientists list by Stanford University. Key participant in major projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology and the NSFC. In 2023, supervised a doctoral student who won the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Thesis Award (first time in China). Served as convener of the global correlation physics group for the RHIC-STAR experiment (2018-2023). Currently leading the Central China Normal University team for the FAIR-CBM experiment in Germany. Editorial board member forNuclear Science and Techniques(Youth Editorial Board) andParticles.

Education

·2006 – 2011, Ph.D., Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

·2009 – 2011, Joint Ph.D. program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

·2002 – 2006, B.S., Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Professional Experience

·2019 – Present, Professor, Central China Normal University

·2016 – 2017, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

·2013 – 2019, Associate Professor, Central China Normal University

·2011 – 2013, Postdoctoral Fellow, Central China Normal University

Honors and Awards

·2024, Paper selected as a top academic paper in China’s elite scientific journals

·2022, First Prize for Outstanding Achievements, Hubei Physical Society

·2022, Selected for the Hubei Postdoctoral Excellence Tracking Program

·2021, Most Influential Paper Award,Chinese Physics C, Chinese Physical Society

·2020, Special Award for Paper,Nuclear Science and Techniques

·2018, First Brookhaven National Laboratory Merit Award, USA

·2012, First Prize for Outstanding Youth Paper, 7th "Morning Light Cup," High Energy Physics Division, Chinese Physical Society

Recent Publications (Last 5 Years)

1. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Production of protons and light nuclei in Au+Au collisions at 3 GeV with the STAR detector,"Phys. Rev. C110, 054911 (2024).

2. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Beam Energy Dependence of Triton Production and Yield Ratio in Au + Au Collisions at RHIC,"Phys. Rev. Lett.130, 202301 (2023).

3. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Measurements of Proton High-Order Cumulants in 3 GeV Au + Au Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point,"Phys. Rev. Lett.128, 202303 (2022).

4. Xiaofeng Luo, Qun Wang, Pengfei Zhuang, and Nu Xu (Editors),Properties of QCD Matter at High Baryon Density, Science Press and Springer, 2022, ISBN-13: 9789811944406.

5. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations,"Phys. Rev. Lett.126, 092301 (2021).

Representative Publications

1. X. Luo, Nu Xu, "Search for the QCD Critical Point with Fluctuations of Conserved Quantities in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC: An Overview,"Nucl. Sci. Tech.28, 112 (2017).

2. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Energy Dependence of Moments of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC,"Phys. Rev. Lett.112, 032302 (2014).

3. X. Luo, "Error Estimation for Moment Analysis in Heavy-Ion Collision Experiment,"J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.39, 025008 (2012).

4. S. Gupta, X. Luo, B. Mohanty, H. G. Ritter, N. Xu, "Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics,"Science332, 1525 (2011).

5. STAR Collaboration (Principal Author), "Higher Moments of Net Proton Multiplicity Distributions at RHIC,"Phys. Rev. Lett.105, 022302 (2010).