George Alverson Associate Professor PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979 (617)373-2938 alverson@neu.edu

Research Summary:

Professor Alverson is a member of the DØ collaboration at Fermilab (near Chicago) and the CMS collaborations at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. DØ is now taking data at the highest energy currently available in the world. The CMS collaboration is currently in the design stage of the construction of a new detector to be used in the planned Large Hadron Collider at CERN at an even higher energy.

His specialty in recent years has been software, particularly three dimensional visualization of high energy events, but he has also done Monte Carlo simulation, data acquisition, and high-speed electronics.

He is a former member of the L3 collaboration at CERN, the E706 collaboration at Fermilab, and the E369/E610/E673 collaboration at Fermilab.

Recent Publications :

1. Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets final state with the matrix element method. By D0 Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys.Rev.D74:092005, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.092005

2. Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decay at D0. By D0 Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys.Rev.D75:031102, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.031102

3. Measurement of B_d mixing using opposite-side flavor tagging. By D0 Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys.Rev.D74:112002, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.112002

4. Measurement of the CP-violation parameter of B⁰ mixing and decay with p anti-p→µ µ X data. & By D0 Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys.Rev.D74:092001, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.092001

5. Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the p anti-p→ZH→ ν anti-ν b anti-b channel. By D0 Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.). Phys.Rev.Lett.97:161803, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161803

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