Current Classes

PHYS2320: Classical and Model Physics II
PHYS5620: Computational Physics I

Collaborations

High energy experimental particle physics seeks to understand the most basic forces and constituent particles of matter responsible for the evolution of the universe that surrounds us. My research activities focus on studies of the Standard Model of particle physics on the D-Zero Experiment at Femi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), and also the CMS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. My work includes: studies of the Higgs Boson, precision measurements with jets and photons, and the development of electronics for particle detection and real time data processing.

Selected Research Talks

• Higgs Searches at the Tevatron,
  Physics at the LHC Conference, Jun. 2012

• Lecturers on standard model measurements and Higgs boson searches, BCVSPIN Advanced Study Institute in Particle Physics and Cosmology, Jul 2011

• Searches for the Higgs Boson at the Tevatron,
  Meeting of the American Physcal Society, Apr 2011

• Jet Results from D-Zero,
  LHC@BNL:Joint Theory/Experiment Workshop on Early Physics at the LHC , Jul. 2010

• Measurement of Running Alpha_s at the Tevatron,
  Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, Mar. 2010

• QCD at the Tevatron,
  Physics at the LHC Conference, Oct 2008

• From the Tevatron to the LHC
  SESAPS Invited Talk, Nov 2006

• Jet Energy Scale at CDF and D-Zero,
  Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, May 2006

• Recent News from the D-Zero Experiment,
  Physics Colloquium, 2005

• Hard QCD at Colliders
  21st International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies, 2003

Graduate Physics Studies at UVa

UVa Physics Graduate Brochure
and application information

HEP links for the general public

The Particle Adventure from the the Particle Data Group
Inquiring Minds from Fermilab
The Quantum Universe from interactions.org
Quarks Unbound from the APS

The D-Zero's plain English research summaries RunII / Run I
The Standard Model from The Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything
What is the Higgs Boson? from Frank Wilczek