This page was thrown together quickly to provide some info about the UCSD collider physics group for prospective graduate students in 2008. It contains links to public information on what UCSD particle physicists have been up to within the last year.

UCSD work on CMS

• Matt LeBourgeois (graduate student)
• Elizabeth Duisenberry (graduate student)
• Frank Golf (graduate student)
• Ryan Kelley (graduate student)
• Matt Norman (graduate student)
• Sean Simon (graduate student)
• Elliot Lipeles (post-doc)
• Boris Mangano (post-doc)
• Johannes Muelmenstedt (post-doc)
• Matteo Sani (post-doc)
• Haifeng Pi (project scientist)
• Toni Coarasa (project scientist)
• James Letts (project scientist)
• Terrence Martin (computing staff)
• Abhishek Rana (computing staff)
• Marco Pieri (research scientist)
• Jim Branson (faculty)
• Vivek sharma (faculty)
• Avi Yagil (faculty)
• fkw (faculty)

Public CMS results from UCSD

• Higgs to gammagamma
  • Volume 2 of physics TDR
• tracking
• talks on electron reconstruction
• talks on lepton isolation

EventBuilder? and HLT trigger farm

CMS Computing

• This twiki is hosted by the Tier-2 at UCSD.
• Global Computing Commissioning
• Debugging Data Transfers Task Force
  • Direct link to DDT

Physics with CDF

• Rami Vanguri (undergraduate)
• Shih-Chieh Hsu (graduate student - accepted Chamberlain Fellowship to work on Atlas at Berkeley starting May 2008)
• Matt Norman (graduate student)
• Elliot Lipeles (post-doc)
• Mark Neubauer (former post-doc. Faculty at UIUC since Fall 2007)
• fkw (faculty)

Public CDF Results from UCSD

• WZ production
  • 2fb update of cross section
  • 2fb Triple gauge couplings - heading for publication now
  • PRL of "First Observation of WZ"
    • The actual PRL publication is here.
• ZZ production
  • First Measurement of ZZ at a hadron collider (submitted to PRL)
• Higgs search
  • 2fb result (Shih-Chieh's thesis)

-- FkW - 10 Feb 2008