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This article is a tribute to Professor Walter Greiner that describes, from my personal perspective and experience, the profound influence of his ideas in two specific subfields of experimental nuclear physics: “nuclear molecules” and relativistic heavy-ion physics. In relating the former, I use the close relationship between Walter as the theorist and D. Allan Bromley the experimentalist who together pioneered that field. I then describe the richness of exciting physics and the tremendous growth of the field of relativistic heavy-ion physics as a result of Walter and the “Greiner School”.
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As an aside—I wish to mention a few other theory influences that excited me. First was a 1973 paper by Chapline et al. [14] that proposed that hot and dense nuclear matter may be formed in head-on collisions of very energetic heavy ions. Then there was a series of lectures by Feshbach [15] that I attended, which intrigued me about a new field called relativistic heavy ion physics. There was the tome by Bethe [16] that I first learned about in taking a summer course from him on “Intermediate Quantum Mechanics,” which I would later use as a reference to questions I had in nuclear physics. Later correspondences with him on a paper [17] we were writing was flattering and helpful. Likewise, much later I invited E. Teller to Berkeley to discuss our heavy ion results some 20 years after his paper [14]. Teller, then in his mid-80’s, surprised and humbled (naive) me with his intellect and knowledge.
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I would like to thank Walter for the bold and broad physics perspective that he imparted to the world and that impacted my research. I thank Lee Schroeder and Reinhard Stock for giving me my first opportunity to perform research in relativistic heavy-ion physics. I sincerely appreciate Reinhard Stock for his lifelong friendship and mentorship. I thank Paula Farnsworth for her assistance in the preparation of this document. This work was supported in part by the Office of Science and Office of Nuclear Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Harris, J.W. (2020). A Confluence of Ideas and Experiments—A Tribute to Professor Walter Greiner. In: Kirsch, J., Schramm, S., Steinheimer-Froschauer, J., Stöcker, H. (eds) Discoveries at the Frontiers of Science. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34234-0_20
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