Aaron Angerami’s background is in the field of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, which sits at the intersection of nuclear and particle physics. He is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. More recently, he joined the sPHENIX Collaboration, which will perform measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the near future.

Angerami’s research interests involve using relativistic heavy-ion collisions to study nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and densities and the properties of the strong interaction at high energy. This includes methods to study the novel form of strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions known as the quark-gluon plasma. One such method utilizes the phenomenon of jet quenching, in which highly energetic quarks and gluons produced at early times become attenuated as they traverse the hot matter, thus providing insight into its microscopic structure. He is also interested in a special class of heavy-ion collisions, known as ultra-peripheral collisions, in which the strong electromagnetic fields associated with relativistic ion beams serve as sources of high-energy photons that provide precise probes of the quark and gluon structure of the nucleus.