Henry Giacaman
Professor, Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics
Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies
UNESCO Chair in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Email: hjaqaman@birzeit.edu Phone: 2982040 Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies


Education

  • PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, 1977
  • B.Sc. in Physics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1972


Research Interests

  • The equation of state of hot hadronic matter.
  • The liquid-gas phase transition in finite hot nuclear matter.
  • The Quark-Meson Coupling Model.
  • Relativistic heavy ion collisions.
  • Computational Cell Biology.


Publications

  1. D. Loerke, M. Mettlen, D. Yarar, K. Jaqaman, H. Jaqaman et al. (2009): Cargo and dynamin regulate clathrin-coated pit maturation. PLoS Biol 7(3): e1000057. doi:10. 1371/journal.p bio.1000057 
  2. I. Zakout, W. Greiner and H. R. Jaqaman (2005): Thermal Kaon Production in Relativistic Heavy-ion collisions. Nuclear Physics A 759 201-226. 
  3. I. Zakout, H. R. Jaqaman and W. Greiner (2003): Numerical solution of the color superconductivity gap in a weak coupling constant. Physical Review C 68 034901-1.
  4. H. I. Hidmi, D. H. E. Gross and H. R. Jaqaman (2002): On the fragmentation of multiply charged sodium clusters. European Physical Journal D 20 87.
  5. I. Zakout, H. R. Jaqaman and W. Greiner (2001): Properties of dense strange hadronic matter with quark degrees of freedom. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 27 1938.
  6. I. Zakout and H. R. Jaqaman (2000): Hot Nuclear Matter in the Modified Quark-Meson Coupling model with Quark-Quark Correlations. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 26 1095.
  7. I. Zakout, H. R. Jaqaman, S. Pal, H. Stocker, and W. Greiner (2000): Hot Hypernuclear Matter in the Modified Quark-Meson Coupling Model. Physical Review C 61 055208-1.
  8. I. Zakout and H. R. Jaqaman (1999): Hot Nuclear Matter in the Modified Quark-Meson Coupling Model with Dilatons. Physical Review C 59 968.
  9. I. Zakout and H. R. Jaqaman (1999): Deconfinement in the Quark-Meson Coupling Model. Physical Review C 59 962.
  10. H. R. Jaqaman in J. Hubele et al. (1992): Statistical fragmentation of Au projectiles at E/A = 600 MeV. Physical Review C 46 R1577.
  11. H. R. Jaqaman, L. Sihver, K. Aleklett, W. Loveland, P.L. McGaughey and D.H.E. Gross (1992): Gold target fragmentation by 800 GeV protons. Nuclear Physics A 543 703.
  12. H. R. Jaqaman, A. R. DeAngelis, A. Ecker and D.H.E. Gross (1992): Charge- Conservation, quantum symmetry and Metropolis sampling in an exactly solvable model of nuclear fragmentation. Nuclear Physics A 542 492.
  13.  H. R. Jaqaman, D.H.E. Gross, A.R. DeAngelis, Pan Jicai and R. Heck (1992): Intermittency in the multifragmentation of hot nuclei ? Physical Review Letters 68 146.
  14. H. R. Jaqaman and D.H.E. Gross (1991): Signals of the liquid-gas phase transition in the fragmentation of hot nuclei: finite-size scaling. Nuclear Physics A 524 321.
  15. H. R. Jaqaman, Gabor Papp and D.H.E. Gross (1990): Percolation vs. microcanonical fragmentation: comparison of fragment size distributions. Where is the liquid-gas transition in nuclei ? Nuclear Physics A 514 327.
  16. H. R. Jaqaman (1989): Instability of Hot Nuclei. Physical Review C 40 1677.
  17. H. R. Jaqaman (1989): Coulomb Instability of Hot Nuclei. Physical Review C 39 169.
  18. H. R. Jaqaman (1988): Approximate Analytic Self-Consistent Solution of the Overhauser Problem for T > 0. Physical Review C 38 1418. 
  19. H. R. Jaqaman (1986): Collective Flow in Ar + KCl at 1.8 GeV/Nucleon. Physical Review C 33 2191.
  20. H. R. Jaqaman, H. Liu and L. Zamick (1985): Excited States of 4He. Physical Review C 31 2251.
  21. H. R. Jaqaman and A. Z. Mekjian (1985): Fokker-Planck and Linear Transport Solutions to Collective Flow in Heavy Ion Collisions. Physical Review C 31 146.
  22. H. R. Jaqaman and L. Zamick (1984): High Multipole Moments in Nuclei. Physical Review C 30 1719.
  23. H. R. Jaqaman, A. Z. Mekjian and L. Zamick (1984): Liquid-Gas Phase Transitions in Finite Nuclear Matter. Physical Review C 29 2067.
  24. H. R. Jaqaman (1984): Sub-Barrier Fusion of Heavy Ions. Physical Review C 29 335.
  25. H. R. Jaqaman, A. Z. Mekjian and L. Zamick (1983): Nuclear Condensation. Physical Review C 27 2782.
  26. H. R. Jaqaman and A. Z. Mekjian (1976): The Nucleus-Nucleus Potential. Nuclear Physics A 259 157.
  27. H. R. Jaqaman and A. Z. Mekjian (1975): An Optical Potential for Heavy Ion Interactions. Physics Letters B 56 237.

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