Abbott

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

My research in experimental particle physics has covered a wide variety of topics. I have studied QCD and heavy flavor physics as a member of the DØ collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which is located near Chicago Illinois. At DØ, I studied QCD by measuring jet shape distributions, dijet angular distributions and evaluating different jet algorithms. For heavy flavor physics I studied properties of the B meson, and in particular Bs mixing, which involves a Bs meson oscillating into its anti-matter partner. I have also been active in studying various particles including the χ(3872), and the Ξb– and Ωb baryons. I have been studying CP violation by studying the decays Bs → J/ψf0(980) and Bs → J/ψf2´(1525) and searching for exotic states such as the X(4140) and the Zb.

I am currently a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located near Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS detector has been collecting data since 2010 and has accumulated a large data set at the world's highest center of mass energy. At the LHC, I have been involved in measuring differential photon cross sections, searching for Super Symmetry, and studying prompt J/Psi production in association with a W boson. I am currently searching for Vector-like leptons, studying WWW and WWgamma decays. In addition to the analysis projects, I am also involved in helping build the next generation pixel detector for the ATLAS experiment.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Associated production of J/psi and W boson at 8 TeV," ATLAS Collaboration, JHEP, 01, 095, (2020) arXiv: arXiv:1909.13626 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2020)095

"Observation of the associated production of a top quark and a Z boson in pp collisions at √s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector," ATLAS Collaboration, Journal High Energy Physics, 124, (2020) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5491-4

"Search for large missing transverse momentum in association with one top-quark in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector," ATLAS Collaboration, Journal of High Energy Physics, 41, (2019) https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09743

"Measurement of the production cross-section of a single top quark in association with a Z boson in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector," ATLAS Collaboration, Journal of High Energy Physics, 780, (2018) https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03659

"Measurement of the t ¯ t production cross section in the τ + jets final state in p p collisions at √ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector," ATLAS Collaboration, Physical Review D, 95, (2017) DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.072003