Iftekhar Ahmed

Ph.D. Student at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Graduated 2023

About

Iftekhar Ahmed is a Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, working on the sPHENIX experiment at RHIC. He completed his M.Sc. in Physics at the University of Chittagong under the supervision of Prof. Quazi Muhammad Rashed Nizam, where his research focused on measuring heavy ion interactions using CR-39 nuclear track detectors. His current work involves developing machine learning techniques for particle flow algorithms and measuring jet azimuthal anisotropy coefficients in heavy-ion collisions.

Publications

Q. M. R. Nizam, A. Ahmed, I. Ahmed, L. Sihver. Monte Carlo calculations of target fragments from helium and carbon ion interactions with water. Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik, 36(1), 26-35, 2026.
sPHENIX Collaboration (including I. Ahmed). Measurement of isolated prompt photon production in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV with the sPHENIX detector. arXiv:2607.03892, 2026.
sPHENIX Collaboration (including I. Ahmed). Measurement of dijet transverse momentum imbalance and azimuthal acoplanarity in p+p collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV with the sPHENIX detector. arXiv:2606.17184, 2026.