General

Gao-Chan Yong

Phone (optional): 0086-931-4969188

Email: yonggaochan@impcas.ac.cn

Address: 509, Nanchang Road, Lanzhou, China

Research area

The equation of state of dense matter determined by strong interactions and the phase structure of nuclear matter is one of the most significant research topics in nuclear physics. The quark-hadron phase transition after the Big Bang may determine the ratio of dark matter to visible matter, the number and distribution of galaxies in the universe, the formation of supernovae, neutron stars, and Earth-like planets. The long-term plans of major scientific facilities in the United States, Europe, Russia, China, and other countries clearly include the study of the properties of dense nuclear matter and the phase transition between hadrons and quarks as their main research content. My research focuses on the detection theory of high-density nuclear matter properties and is based on heavy-ion collision transport models. By combining experiments, I provide information on the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter and the boundary of the phase transition for dense nuclear matter, which helps people understand the evolution of the universe in the early and late stages and increases our understanding of non-perturbative QCD strong interactions.

 

As an independent researcher, I mainly focus on the following fields, e.g., heavy-ion collisions (HICs) at low and intermediate energies; Isospin and symmetry energy effects in HICs; Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter in HICs; Nuclear Symmetry Energy; Phase-transition of dense matter from hadronic state to QGP state in Relativistic HICs, etc.

 

I mainly engage in theoretical research related to intermediate energy heavy ion collisions. In the more than ten years of independent scientific research, I have conducted a series of innovative and systematic research work in the development of isospin related transport theory modeling, the detection and constraint of dense nuclear matter equation of state, nucleon-nucleon short-range correlation effects and particle production in heavy ion collisions, and hadron-quark phase transition in nuclear matter, etc. Specifically, I have constrained the effective momentum of nuclear nucleon motion, proposed the concept of momentum gap for asymmetric nuclear matter nucleon motion, developed and established transport theory models related to isospin and short-range correlation, proposed the concept of isospin blocking, and implemented a qualitative detection method for high-density symmetry energy. I have also pointed out the blind spots in the laboratory detection of high-density symmetry energy and proposed new probes using squeezed nucleon emission, photon production, mesons or doubly strange baryons with hidden strange quarks. I have discovered that intermediate energy heavy ion nuclear reactions can produce super neutron star matter under super-strong magnetic field conditions and proposed a new mode of studying the phase transition from nucleonic matter to quark matter. I have also pointed out that doubly strange particles are more suitable than singly strange particles for exploring the properties of high density nuclear matter, and proposed the use of a new three-nucleus colliding mode to study the synthesis of superheavy elements and the properties of high-density nuclear matter. I also made a first determination of QCD phase diagram and study the strangeness production in neutron stars firstly by a dynamical method.To date, I have published more than 50 research papers in international journals, including 24 in top nuclear physics research journals such as Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Lett. B and Phys. Rev. C/D Rapid Communications, making me one of the people who have independently published the most innovative research articles in this field domestically.

Education and experience

2008.07-Ph.D., Nuclear Physics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006.10-2012.10-Research Assistant, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2012.11-2017.10-Associate Professor, PhD supervisor, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2017.11-2022.10-Researcher 4, PhD supervisor, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2022.11-Researcher 3, PhD supervisor, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

Innovative Papers:

17). Strangeness production in neutron stars

Phys. Rev. D - Letter 108, L091507 (2023)

Gao-Chan Yong

(16). Phase diagram determination at fivefold nuclear compression

Physics Letters B 848 (2024) 138327

Gao-Chan Yong

 (15). A method for probing the formation of quark matter

Physics Letters B 843 (2023) 138051

Gao-Chan Yong

(14). Isospin blocking and its effects in heavy-ion collisions

Phys. Rev. C - Letter 106, L021601 (2022)

Ya-Fei Guo, and Gao-Chan Yong*

(13). Nucleon momentum gap in asymmetric nuclear matter

Phys. Rev. C - Letter 105, L011601 (2022)

Gao-Chan Yong

 (12). Formation of large chunk of nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions

Physics Letters B 832 (2022) 137260

Gao-Chan Yong

 (11). Double strangeness Cascade^- production as a probe of nuclear equation of state at high densities

Physics Letters B 820 (2021) 136521

Gao-Chan Yong*, Zhi-Gang Xiao, Yuan Gao, Zi-Wei Lin

 (10). Probing nuclear bubble configuration by proton induced reaction

Phy. Rev. C - Rapid Communication 99 (R), 041601 (2019)

Xiao-Hua Fan, Gao-Chan Yong*,Wei Zuo

(9). Probing proton transition momentum in neutron-rich matter

Physics Letters B 776 (2018) 447-450

Gao-Chan Yong

(8). Blind spots of probing the high-density symmetry energy in heavy-ion collisions

Physics Letters B 786 (2018) 422-425

Gao-Chan Yong 

 (7). Constraining nucleon high momentum in nuclei

Physics Letters B 765 (2017) 104-108

Gao-Chan Yong

 (6). Normal or abnormal isospin-fractionation as a qualitative probe of nuclear symmetry energy at supradensities

Physics Letters B 738 (2014) 397-400

Wenmei Guo, Gaochan Yong*, Yongjia Wang, Qingfeng Li, Hongfei Zhang, Wei Zuo

 (5). Effects of nuclear symmetry energy on η meson production and its rare decay to the dark U-boson in heavy-ion reactions

Physics Letters B 723 (2013) 388-392

Gao-Chan Yong*, Bao-An Li

 (4). A direct probe of the in-medium pn scattering cross section

Physics Letters B 705 (2011) 240-243

Gao-Chan Yong*, Wei Zuo, Xun-Chao Zhang

 (3). Nuclear collision in strong magnetic field

Physics Letters B 700 (2011) 249-253

Gao-Chan Yong

 (2). Neutron–proton bremsstrahlung from intermediate energy heavy-ion reactions as a probe of the nuclear symmetry energy?

Physics Letters B 661 (2008) 82-87

Gao-Chan Yong, Bao-An Li*, Lie-Wen Chen

(1). The neutron/proton ratio of squeezed-out nucleons and the high density behavior of the nuclear symmetry energy

Physics Letters B 650 (2007) 344-347

Gao-Chan Yong, Bao-An Li*, Lie-Wen Chen

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