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Darien
Wood
Associate Professor
PhD University of California at Berkeley, 1987
(617)373-2958
darien@neu.edu
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Research
Summary:
Prof.
Wood is currently studying high energy (2 TeV) collisions
of protons and antiprotons with the The
DØ Experiment at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab.
DØ is studying quark scattering at the highest available
energies, has observed the elusive top quark and measured
its mass, and made many precise measurements of the properties
of other particles. The experiment continues to search
for new particles, including the Higgs boson. In addition
to the top quark, Prof. Wood's particular area of interest
is the study of the W and Z bosons, the
carriers of the weak force.
On
the DØ Experiment, Prof. Wood has worked on the system
to detect muons, and is currently co-leading an effort
to upgrade the experimental "trigger" system which decides
(in a few microseconds) which events to discard and which
ones to retain for futher study.
Before
joining the DØ Experiment, Prof. Wood worked on the UA2
experiment at CERN in
Geneva, Switzerland, which was also dedicated to the study
of proton-antiproton collisions. Before that, he studied
high energy electron-positron collisions at SLAC in California.
Recent Publications:
1.
"Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |V_tb|", Phys. Rev. Lett. {98}, 181902 (2007).
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0612052
2.
"Search for W' Boson Production in the W'->tb Decay Channel",
Phys. Lett. B {641} 423 (2006).
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0607102
3.
"The Upgraded D0 Detector" Nucl. Instr. and Methods A {565}, 463 (2006).
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507191
4. "Search for the Standard Model Hhiggs Boson in the ppbar->ZH->nu nubar b bbar
Channel"
Phys. Rev. Lett. {97}, 161803 (2006).
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0607022
5.
"The RunIIb Trigger Upgrade for the DØ Experiment"
IEEE Trans. of Nucl. Science {51} 340 (2004).
http://www-d0.fnal.gov/trigger/runIIb/documents/docs.html
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