Department of Physics

elementary particle physics (theoretical)

I am intrigued by questions such as: "Why is there mass?" and "Why do the four fundamental forces in nature appear to be different?" Finding answers to these questions will certainly involve a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of electro-weak symmetry breaking. So it is in this area that my research interests lie. I have probed this phenomenon using a variety of tools - the tau-lepton, the b-quark, searches for new physics - and at a variety of particle accelerators - LEP, the Tevatron, LHC. I am currently a member of the large, international collaborations D0 at Fermilab outside of Chicago and Atlas at CERN near Geneva. We keenly anticipate making breakthroughs in our knowledge of electro-weak symmetry breaking in the years to come using these energy-frontier accelerators.

As an experimentalist, I am also fascinated by the devices we build to make our measurements. In particular, I am involved in several projects developing high-speed electronics to aid in the collection of the unprecedented amounts of data we will accumulate in the near future.

"Measurement of the Upsilon(1S) Production Cross-Section in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in ATLAS", The ATLAS Collaboration, G. Aad, et al, arXiv:1106.5325[hep-ex] submitted to Phys. Lett. B.

"The ATLAS TRT Electronics", E. Abat, et al, Journal of Instrumentation (JINST) 3, P06007 (2008).

"Design and Implementation of the New D0 Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger", M. Abolins et al , Nucl. Instrum. and Methods A 584/1, 75-97 (2007).

"Measurement of the one-prong Hadronic tau Branching Ratio at LEP", The OPAL collaboration, K. Ackerstaff, et al, Eur. Phys. J. C4, 193 (1998).

"Measurements of the Inclusive Branching Ratios of Tau Leptons to K0s and Charged K*(892)", The OPAL collaboration, R. Akers, et al, Phys. Lett. B339, 278 (1994).

elementary particle physics (theoretical)

I am intrigued by questions such as: "Why is there mass?" and "Why do the four fundamental forces in nature appear to be different?" Finding answers to these questions will certainly involve a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of electro-weak symmetry breaking. So it is in this area that my research interests lie. I have probed this phenomenon using a variety of tools - the tau-lepton, the b-quark, searches for new physics - and at a variety of particle accelerators - LEP, the Tevatron, LHC. I am currently a member of the large, international collaborations D0 at Fermilab outside of Chicago and Atlas at CERN near Geneva. We keenly anticipate making breakthroughs in our knowledge of electro-weak symmetry breaking in the years to come using these energy-frontier accelerators.

As an experimentalist, I am also fascinated by the devices we build to make our measurements. In particular, I am involved in several projects developing high-speed electronics to aid in the collection of the unprecedented amounts of data we will accumulate in the near future.

"Measurement of the Upsilon(1S) Production Cross-Section in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV in ATLAS", The ATLAS Collaboration, G. Aad, et al, arXiv:1106.5325[hep-ex] submitted to Phys. Lett. B.

"The ATLAS TRT Electronics", E. Abat, et al, Journal of Instrumentation (JINST) 3, P06007 (2008).

"Design and Implementation of the New D0 Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger", M. Abolins et al , Nucl. Instrum. and Methods A 584/1, 75-97 (2007).

"Measurement of the one-prong Hadronic tau Branching Ratio at LEP", The OPAL collaboration, K. Ackerstaff, et al, Eur. Phys. J. C4, 193 (1998).

"Measurements of the Inclusive Branching Ratios of Tau Leptons to K0s and Charged K*(892)", The OPAL collaboration, R. Akers, et al, Phys. Lett. B339, 278 (1994).