RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

High Energy Physics

Experiments

• SLAC BaBar : 1997-present

  Asymmetric electron positron colliding beam experiment primarily designed to investigate the properties of CP violation in the the b-bbar system. Effort concentrated on particle identification issues and certain hadronic systems produced following b (bbar) decay.

• DESY H1 : 1994-1997

  Electron (and positron) proton scattering. The goals and achievements of H1 are well known within the High Energy Physics community. Performed some preliminary analysis on large rapidity gap events.

• Brookhaven E852 : 1989-1994

  Search for glueballs and other exotics. Involved in the design and development of the lead glass detector sub-system using GEANT. Developed algorithms for reconstructing photon momenta from energy deposited in the lead glass.

• Fermilab E672 : 1986-1992

  Study of high mass dimuon production (in particular J/) with 530 GeV/c and p beams incident on nuclear targets. Involved in data analysis, particularly the hadrons produced with the dimuon, as well as efficiency and intensity studies.

• Fermilab E610/673 : 1980-1982

  Investigation of hadronic production of J/psi and mesons using 225 GeV/c pi^- or p beams directed onto a Be target. Monte-Carlo simulation of chi decay, following the muons (and electrons) from psi decay and the radiative photon, to measure detector acceptances, efficiencies etc. (Prior to GEANT). Hardware experience also obtained.

• Fermilab - Antineutrino wide band beam using the 15' Bubble chamber filled with hydrogen : 1979-1981

  Analysis of neutral current events in antineutrino proton interactions.

• CERN - Neutrino (Antineutrino) narrow band beam using BEBC filled with heavy liquid : 1976- 1979

• PhD thesis experiment. Structure function analysis obtained from charged current neutrino (and antineutrino) interactions with a Ne/H₂ mixture in BEBC. Also, investigation of the gross properties of the hadronic system in both charged and neutral current events.



Other Physics

• Detailed microscopic simulation of a system of paramagnetic spins at low temperatures. Superradiation phenomenon has been investigated via simulation of individual spins rather than prior phenomenological methods.

• Investigation of the energy dependence of the ratio of quark-antiquark production to lepton-antilepton production in electron positron interactions by means of wavelet analysis.
  

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