Prakhar Garg

Prakhar Garg

Research Scientist
Physics

Biographical Sketch

Prakhar Garg is a Research Scientist working with Helen Caines in Wright Lab who comes to us from Stony Brook University.

Research:

Garg’s research interest is in gaseous detectors and photon detectors. He is involved in several R&D projects with a focus on detectors for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) soon to be under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

He has been involved in the PHENIX experiment at BNL since 2009 and later in the sPHENIX experiment. His research covers many aspects of experimental heavy-ion physics such as detector R&D, construction, and its operation. Before coming to Yale, he worked with the experimental Nuclear Physics Group at Stony Brook University as a Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor for the construction and R&D of the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) installed at sPHENIX and GEM based tracker to be installed at the MOLLER experiment at Jefferson Lab.

Education

Ph.D., Banaras Hindu University, 2015

Honors & Awards

Selected Publications

INSPIRE publications

Contact Info

prakhar.garg@yale.edu

WLW 302

Research Website

Research Areas: Relativistic Heavy Ions, Instrumentation Development

Research Type: Experimentalist

Experiments

CV

Experiments

EIC/ePIC

Caines, Havener, John Harris

Science goal: Understand high energy density quantum chromodynamics (QCD) created in relativistic collisions of heavy nuclei.

WL involvement: Yale has multiple R&D projects, including particle identification detectors. Testing & characterizing photosensors for the pfRICH detector will be done at Wright Lab. Yale is also involved in software development for PID reconstruction.

EIC/ePIC

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