Research Summary:

Prof. Wood is currently studying high energy (2 TeV) collisions of protons and antiprotons with 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:

"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

"Search for W' Boson Production in the W'->tb Decay Channel", Phys. Lett. B {641} 423 (2006).
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0607102

"The Upgraded D0 Detector" Nucl. Instr. and Methods A {565}, 463 (2006).
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0507191

"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

"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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