Bio

Daicui Zhou: A second-level professor at the School of Physics, Central China Normal University, specializing in high-energy heavy-ion collision experiments. He has been a member of several international experimental collaborations, including the Chinese High-Energy Nuclear Emulsion Experiment Collaboration, CERN-SPS-EMU01, DUBNA-JINR-EMU12, BNL-AGS-E815/863, CERN-LHC-ALICE, and GSI-FAIR-CBM. Initially, he conducted high-altitude cosmic ray heavy nucleus interaction experiments and, since 1985, has been focusing on fixed-target experiments and high energy heavy-ion collision experiments at accelerators. His research interests include particle production, nuclear fragmentation, correlations and fluctuations, photon and neutral particle production, heavy flavor and quarkonium production, jet energy loss, anisotropic flow and partonic collectivity. The physical goal is to explore quark-gluon plasma (QGP) signals and their properties. He has led and co-developed multiple particle track measuring instruments and detector devices for international collaborative experiments. He has independently and jointly published over 400 SCI-indexed papers. He has hosted and participated in various projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including general foundation projects, key foundation projects, major and key international cooperation projects, and National Key R&D Programs funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education. Currently, he leads one key international cooperation project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and participates in two national key R&D programs.

Educational Background

·1996-1999 Ph.D., Central China Normal University

·1983-1986 Graduate Program in Theoretical Physics, Central China Normal University

·1978-1980 Assistant Program in Theoretical Physics, Central China Normal College

·1975 Bachelor's Degree, Central China Normal College

Work Experience

·2019-Present Guiyue Distinguished Professor, Central China Normal University

·2002-2019 Professor, School of Physics Science and Technology, Central China Normal University

·1996-2002 Professor, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

·1990-1996 Associate Professor, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

·1982-1990 Lecturer, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

·1975-1982 Assistant, Department of Physics, Central China Normal College

·2018 Guest Senior Scientist (Scientific Associate ), CERN

·2011-2012 Guest Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

·1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 Visiting Scholar and Guest Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics at Orsay, CNRS, France

·1994-1996 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Nuclear Physics at Orsay, CNRS, France

Honors and Awards

·2021 Second Prize, Guizhou Provincial Government Natural Science Award

·2001 Recipient of the State Council Government Special Allowance

·1995 Excellent Achievement Award, Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation

·1995 Third Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, State Education Commission

·1991 Third Prize, Science and Technology Progress Award, State Education Commission

Academic Memberships

·2017-2020 Member of ALICE Management Board, ALICE Collaboration

·1999-2022 Member of ALICE Collaboration Board

·2002-2022 National Deputy Coordinator and Coordinator of ALICE Chinese Team

·2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 Member of International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD)

Professional Memberships

·2013-2016, 2016-2019, 2019-2022: Member of Council, Chinese Nuclear Physics Society

·2009-2021: Member of Council, Chinese Nuclear Society

·2009-2021: Vice Chairman, Hubei Nuclear Society

·1989-2009: Director of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Division, Hubei Nuclear Society

Conference Service

·2019: Local Co-Chair, Chinese Nuclear Physics Conference

·2018:Local Chair, Chinese LHC Physics Conference

·2016: Local Co-Chair, International Conference on Hard Probes and Electromagnetic Probes of Quark Matter

·2015, 2017: Local Chair, ALICE Silicon Pixel Detector and Online & Offline Meetings

·2013: Local Chair, ALICE Week, ALICE Physics Week, ALICE Online & Offline Week

·2012: Local Co-Chair, International Conference on High Transverse Momentum Physics

·2011: Local Co-Chair, International Conference on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD)

·2009: Local Chair, Sino-French Particle Physics Laboratory (FCPPL) International Conference

·2008: Local Co-Chair, International Workshop on Photon and Jet Physics

·2008: Local Co-Chair, International Workshop on LHC Physics

Laboratory Leadership Service

·2007-2022: Executive Deputy Director, Key Laboratory of Quark and Lepton Physics, Ministry of Education, Central China Normal University

·1997-2015: Director, Key Laboratory of High-Energy Physics, Hubei Province, Central China Normal University

·1983-1997: Deputy Director and Director, Nuclear Emulsion Laboratory, Central China Normal University

·2008-2019: Deputy Director, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

·2002-2008: Executive Deputy Director, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

·1995-2002: Deputy Director, Institute of Particle Physics, Central China Normal University

Recent Publications

1. ALICE Collaboration, Measurement of inclusive charged-particle jet production in pp and p–Pb collisions at √s—_NN=5.02TeV, JHEP 05 (2024) 041.

2. ALICE Collaboration, "Underlying-event properties in pp and p-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV," JHEP, 2023, 06(2023).

3. ALICE Collaboration, "First measurement of Ωc0 production in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV," PLB 846 (2023) 137625.

4. ALICE Collaboration, "Measurement of the cross sections of Ξc0 and Ξc+ baryons and of the branching-fraction ratio BR(Ξc0→Ξ-e+νe) / BR(Ξc0→Ξ-π+) in pp collisions at 13 TeV," Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021) 272001.

5. ALICE Collaboration, "Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at high transverse momentum in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 and 2.76 TeV," Phys. Lett. B820 (2021) 136558.

6. ALICE Collaboration, "Underlying event properties in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV," JHEP 04 (2020)192.

7. Somnath Kar, Subikash Choudhury, Xiaoming Zhang, and Daicui Zhou, "Examining the event-shape-dependent modifications to charged-particle transverse momentum spectra and elliptic flow in p-Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider," Phys. Rev. C102 (2020) 044901.

8. W. Xiang, Y. Cai, M. Wang, and D. Zhou, "Rare fluctuations of the S matrix at NLO in QCD," Phys. Rev. D99 (2019) 096026.

9. ALICE Collaboration, "Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at √s = 5.02 TeV," JHEP 09 (2019) 008.

10. ALICE Collaboration, "Measurement of D0, D+, D*+ and Ds production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV," JHEP 10 (2018) 174.