N. Willis

15.6k citations

179 papers · 11.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 51

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics top 5%
- Statistical Mechanics and Entropy

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 178
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 109
- Nuclear physics research studies 45
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 38
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 13
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 12
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1
- Scientific Research and Discoveries 1

Co-authors: Yves Le Bornec (45 shared papers)B. Tatischeff (36 shared papers)Louis Bimbot (21 shared papers)Fernand Reide (30 shared papers)Maxime Boivin (22 shared papers)P. Courtat (23 shared papers)R. Gacougnolle (19 shared papers)Colin Wilkin C (9 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review C (34 papers)Physics Letters B (29 papers)Nuclear Physics A (29 papers)Physical Review Letters (27 papers)Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics (7 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Japan

In The Last Decade

N. Willis

174 papers receiving 10.8k citations

N. Willis's Hit Papers

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The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC 2008 · 983 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2008 Journal of Instrumentation
2007 Physical Review Letters
2005 Nuclear Physics A

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1	Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration Nuclear Physics A ·K. Adcox, Stephen Adler, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, A. Al-Jamel, James P. Alexander Hit paper breakdown →	2005	2289
2	The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC Journal of Instrumentation ·Kenneth Aamodt, A. Abrahantes Quintana, R. Achenbach, Stéphane Acounis, D. Adamová, C. Adler, M. M. Aggarwal, F. Agnese Hit paper breakdown →	2008	983
3	Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sNN=200 GeV Physical Review Letters ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, James P. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel Hit paper breakdown →	2007	432
4	J / ψ Production versus Centrality, Transverse Momentum, andRapidity in Au + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV Physical Review Letters ·C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, L. Aphecetche, E. T. Atomssa, Alberto Baldisseri, Peter D. Barnes, D. S. Brown, Gerry M. Bunce	2007	355
5	Absence of Suppression in Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in sNN=200 GeV d+Au Collisions Physical Review Letters ·Stephen Adler, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, A. Al-Jamel, John M. Alexander, Kazuya Aoki	2003	306
6	Enhanced Production of Direct Photons in Au+Au Collisions at sNN=200 GeV and Implications for the Initial Temperature Physical Review Letters ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, John M. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2010	272
7	Scaling Properties of Azimuthal Anisotropy in Au + Au and Cu + Cu Collisions at s NN = 200 GeV Physical Review Letters ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, James P. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2007	268
8	Evidence for deconfinement of quarks and gluons from the J/ψ suppression pattern measured in Pb-Pb collisions at the CERN-SPS Physics Letters B ·M.C. Abreu, B. Alessandro, C. Alexa, R. Arnaldi, M. R. Atayan, Ch. Baglin, Alain Baldit, M. Bedjidian	2000	257
9	Dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV Physical Review C ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, James P. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2008	244
10	Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with ALICE at LHC The European Physical Journal C ·Kenneth Aamodt, N. Abel, U. Abeysekara, A. Abrahantes Quintana, A. Abramyan, D. Adamová, M. M. Aggarwal, Gianluca Aglieri Rinella	2010	232
11	Detailed measurement of the e + e − pair continuum in p + p and Au + Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV and implications for direct photon production Physical Review C ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, John M. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2010	227
12	Suppression Pattern of Neutral Pions at High Transverse Momentum in Au + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV and Constraints on Medium Transport Coefficients Physical Review Letters ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, John M. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2008	225
13	Production of pions, kaons and protons in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 900~\mathrm{GeV}$ with ALICE at the LHC The European Physical Journal C ·Kenneth Aamodt, N. Abel, U. Abeysekara, A. Abrahantes Quintana, A. Abramyan, D. Adamová, M. M. Aggarwal, Gianluca Aglieri Rinella	2011	217
14	Heavy-quark production in p + p and energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV Physical Review C ·Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, H. Al-Bataineh, James P. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel	2011	193
15	Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.9$ and 2.36 TeV with ALICE at LHC The European Physical Journal C ·Kenneth Aamodt, N. Abel, U. Abeysekara, A. Abrahantes Quintana, A. Abramyan, D. Adamová, M. M. Aggarwal, Gianluca Aglieri Rinella	2010	170
16	Anomalous suppression in PbPb interactions at 158 GeV/c per nucleon Physics Letters B ·M.C. Abreu, B. Alessandro, C. Alexa, J. Astruc, Ch. Baglin, Alain Baldit, M. Bedjidian, F. G. Bellaiche	1997	165
17	Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in proton–proton collisions at s=900 GeV with ALICE at the LHC Physics Letters B ·Kenneth Aamodt, N. Abel, U. Abeysekara, A. Abrahantes Quintana, A. Abramyan, D. Adamová, M. M. Aggarwal, Gianluca Aglieri Rinella	2010	150
18	Centrality Dependence of π0 and η Production at Large Transverse Momentum in sNN=200 GeV d+Au Collisions Physical Review Letters ·S. S. Adler, Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, A. Al-Jamel, James P. Alexander, Kazuya Aoki	2007	128
19	Photoproduction of J/ψ and of high mass e+e− in ultra-peripheral Au + Au collisions at sNN=200 GeV Physics Letters B ·Sergey Afanasiev, C. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, John M. Alexander, A. Al-Jamel, Kazuya Aoki, L. Aphecetche	2009	107
20	Anomalous suppression in Pb+Pb collisions at 158×A GeV/c Nuclear Physics A ·M. Gonin, M.C. Abreu, C. Alexa, B. Alessandro, J. Astruc, Ch. Baglin, Alain Baldit, F. G. Bellaiche	1996	106

About N. Willis

N. Willis is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, having authored 179 papers that have together received 11.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (109 papers), Nuclear physics research studies (45 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (38 papers), Particle Detector Development and Performance (13 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (12 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors (1 paper), Scientific Research and Discoveries (1 paper) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (11.1k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (168 citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (66 citations), Hardware and Architecture (21 citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (58 citations). N. Willis has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Yves Le Bornec, B. Tatischeff, Louis Bimbot, Fernand Reide, Maxime Boivin, P. Courtat, R. Gacougnolle, Colin Wilkin C, I. Brissaud and Anthony G. Willis. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review C, Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics A, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Physics G Nuclear and Particle Physics.

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