Chao Zhang

School of Physics and Mechanics                                                                  (+86) 18064036284

^{Wuhan University ofTechnology(WHUT)                                                                               chaoz@whut.edu.cn}

Hubei,Wuhan 430070, China

Summary / Statement

Mycareerintheoreticalphysicshasexploredhigh-energynuclearcollisionsandparticlebehavior,employingphenomeno-logicalmodelingandcomputationalanalysistounravelphenomena.  IamdedicatedtoimprovingtheMulti-Phase Transport model (AMPT) and using this model to conduct in-depthresearchon physicalphenomenainhigh-energy heavy-ion collisions.My main research interests lie in the production and interaction ofheavy flavor particles in high-  energy heavy-ion collisions and the study oftransport models. I have officially published 10SCIpapers,with 8 ofthem  as the first author or correspondingauthor. Throughoutthisjourney,I’vecollaboratedcloselywithesteemedcolleagues  while also mentoring emerging talents.

Education

Academic Employment

Lecturer,Wuhan University ofTechnology, Hubei, Wuhan, China, 2022- Now

Distinction

Best Poster Award at QPT Series Conference, Chinese Nuclear Physics Society, 2023 Joint PH.D. scholarship, Chinese Scholarship Council, 2019

Postgraduate national scholarship, Ministry of Education, 2019

Academic Service

Journal Reviewer

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, European PhysicalJournalA.

Publication

Journal Articles

1. Siyu Tang,ZumanZhang,ChaoZhang*,LiangZhengandRenZhuoWan*.  2025. Investigatingthetransverse-momentum-andpseudorapidity-dependentflowvectordecorrelationinp–PbcollisionswithaMulti-PhaseTransportmodel. Chinese Physics. C accepted arXiv:2507.05596

2. Xin-Li Zhao, Guo-Liang Ma*, You Zhou*, Zi-Wei Lin andChaoZhang. 2024.  Nuclear cluster structureeffectin O¹⁶+ O¹⁶collisions at the top RHIC energy. Phys. Lett. B under review,arXiv:2404.09780

3. Chao Zhang*, Liang Zheng*, ShuSu Shi* and Zi-Wei Lin*. 2024. Investigating D⁰meson production in p-Pb colli- sions at 5.02 TeV with a multi-phase transportmodel. Eur. Phys.J. C 84, no.9, 942 (2024), doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13265-9

4. Siyu Tang, Yuan Lu, Chao Zhang* and RenZhuo Wan*. 2024.Elliptic anisotropyofopen-charmhadron in p–Pb collisions at LHC energies from parton scatterings. Phys. Rev. C 109, no.6, 6 (2024), doi:PhysRevC.109.064902

5. ChaoZhang, Liang Zheng, ShuSu Shi andZi-WeiLin*.  2023.  Resolving the R_pAand v₂puzzle ofD⁰ mesons inp-Pb collisions at the LHC. Phys. Lett. B 846(2023), 138219. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138219

6. Chao Zhang and Zi-Wei Lin*. 2022.Left-right splitting ofelliptic flow due to directed flow in heavy-ion collisions.Phys. Rev. C 106(2022) no.5, 054910 doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.106.054910

7. Chao Zhang, Peng. Yang, Feng. Liu, and Biao. Tu*. 2022. Practical considerations for the effect offinite coverage onthe azimuthal dependence ofglobal spin alignment. Phys. Rev. C 105(2022) no.4, 044902. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC. 105.044902

8. Chao Zhang, Liang Zheng, ShuSu Shi andZi-WeiLin*.2021.Using local scalingofinitial conditionparametersto improve the systemsize dependence oftransportmodeldesciptionofnuclearcollisions. Phys. Rev. C104 (2021)no.1, 014908. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.104.014908

9. Liang Zheng*, Chao Zhang, ShuSu Shi* and Zi-Wei Lin*. 2020. improvement ofheavy flavor production in a multi- phase transport model updated with modern parton distribution functions.Phys.Rev.C 101(2020) no.3, 034905.doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.101.034905

10. Chao Zhang, Liang Zheng, ShuSu Shi* and Zi-Wei Lin*. 2019. Update ofamultiphase transportmodelwithmodern parton distribution functions and nuclear shadowing. Phys. Rev. C 99(2019) no.6, 064906. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.99.064906

11. ChaoZhang,JiaminChen,XiaofengLuo*,FengLiuandYasushiNara. 2018. Beamenergydependenceofthesqueeze-out effect on the directed and elliptic flow in Au + Au collisions in the high baryon density region. Phys.Rev.C 97

^{(2018) no.6, 064913. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.064913}

Conference Articles

12. ChaoZhang, Zi-Wei Lin*, Liang ZhengandShuSuShi,2022.  Resolving theR_pAand v₂ puzzle ofD⁰ mesons inp-Pb collisions, PoSHardProbes2023 (2024), 090. doi:10.22323/1.438.0090

Funding

Approved for one National Natural Science Foundation project and one Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation project, and participated in multiple National Natural Science Foundationprojects.

Talk and Presentation

ResolvingtheR_pAandv₂puzzleofD⁰mesonsinp-Pbcollisions(oraltalk),TheWorkshopofthephasestructureofStrong Interaction, (December 6-11), 2023, Zunyi, Guizhou, China.

Recent developments in AMPT model and it’sapplicantonheavyflavorproductions(invitedtalk) , (June3), 2023, Fudan university, Shanghai.

Resolving the R_pA and v₂ puzzle of D⁰mesons inp-Pb collisions (oral talk), 11th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes ofHigh-Energy Nuclear Collisions, (March 26-31), 2023,Aschaffenburg, Germany

Update of a multiphase transport model with modern parton distribution functions and nuclear shadowing (oral talk), 13th QPT workshop, Enshi, (Aug 16-21), 2019

Beam energy dependence ofsqueeze-out effect on the directed and elliptic flows in Au+Au collisions athighbaryon density region(oral talk), The 18th National Conference on Medium and High Energy Nuclear Physics (June 22- 25, 2019) Changsha, Hunan Normal University

Update of a multiphase transport model with modern parton distribution functions and nuclear shadowing

(oral talk)The International Workshop on Partonic and Hadronic Transport Approaches for RelativisticHeavy Ion Colli-sions (May 11-15, 2019) Dalian, China

Beam energy dependence ofsqueeze-out effect on the directed and elliptic flows in Au+Au collisions athighbaryon density region(oral talk), The 4th CBM-China workshop (April 12-14 2019)Yichang

Studyof particlespectrainppand AAcollsionsusingthemodified AMPTmodel (oral talk), The 7th AsianTriangle Heavy-Ion Conference, (November 3-6, 2018), Hefei

Inclusion of up-to-date parton distribution function and nuclear shadowing in the AMPT model (oral talk), The10th Conference of High Energy Physics of China (June 20-24, 2018), Shanghai, China

Effects of equation of state and spectators ondirectedflowin Au+Aucollisionsat^√s_NN =3-20GeVfromJAM model (poster presentation), Quark Matter 2018 (May. 10 - 19, 2018), Venice, Italy

Inclusionup-to-datePartonDistributionfunctionandnuclearshadowingintheAMPTmodel (oral talk), AMPT workshop (July. 21 - 25, 2017), Sichuan University, Chendu

Teaching Experience

College physics                                                                                                                              Spring2024

Language

Native Chinese (Mandarin)

Fluent English

September 2, 2025