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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. "Present and Future Electroweak Precision Measurements and the Indirect Determination of the Mass of the Higgs Boson", U. Baur, et al., hep-ph/0202001 (2002). 2. "Measurement of the Angular Distribution of Electrons from W->e(nu) Decays Observed in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV", by the DØ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D {63} 072001 (2001). 3. "Real-Time Data Processing in the Muon System of the D0 Detector," D. Wood, N. Parashar et al. (D-zero Collaboration), IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 47, 276 (2000) [arXiv:hep-ex/0105092]. 4. "A measurement of the W boson mass using electrons at large rapidities", by the DØ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. {84}, 222 (2000). 5. "Measurement of W and Z boson production cross sections", by the DØ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 60, 052003 (1999). Related links |
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