NOTRE
DAME
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Nieuwland Science Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670 USA
phone: (574) 631-6386
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Michael D. Hildreth
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| E-mail: | mhildret (at) nd (dot) edu |
| Address: | Nieuwland Science Hall 414 |
| Phone: | (574-63)1-6458 |
| Fax: | (574-63)1-5952 |
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| Phone: | (574-63)1-6386 |
Research
Interests
Prof. Hildreth's primary physics interest is in discovering and understanding the mechanism or mechanisms responsible for Electroweak Symmetry Breaking. Simply put, this would answer questions like: “why is there mass?” and “is there a Higgs?” As a member of the DØ Experiment at the Tevatron collider at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Prof. Hildreth is exploring these questions with the large dataset from the Tevatron Run II. He is working on precision measurements of top quark and W boson properties which can be combined with searches for physics beyond the standard model to yield as complete as possible of physics at the highest accessible energies.
While providing greatly enhanced capability, the upgraded DØ detector, especially the scintillating fiber tracker built under Notre Dame supervision, requires a significant effort devoted to understanding the calibration, event reconstruction, the detector simulation, and the impact of all of these on the physics analyses. Prof. Hildreth is involved in all areas of these investigations.Selected Publications
"Determination of the bending field integral of the LEP spectrometer dipole," R. Chritin et al., Nucl. Inst. Meth. A 545, 31 (2005).
"Calibration of centre-of-mass energies at LEP 2 for a precise measurement of the w boson mass," R. Assmann et al., (LEP Energy Working Group) Eur. Phys. J. C. 39, 253 (2005).
"B Physics at DØ," M.D. Hildreth et al., (DØ Collaboration), Eur. Phys. J. C 33, S192-S194 (2004).
“The Run IIb Trigger Upgrade for the DØ Experiment,” M Abolins, et al ., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 51, 340-344 (2004).
“Precise determination of the Z resonance parameters at LEP: 'Zedometry',” G. Abbiendi et al. (OPAL Collaboration), Eur. Phys. J. C 19, 587 (2001).
"Evaluation of the LEP Center-Of-Mass Energy Above the W Pair Production Threshold," A. Blondel et al. (LEP Energy Working Group), Eur. Phys. J. C. 11, 573 (1999).
"Measurement of the W Mass and Width in e+ e- Collisions at 183 GeV," G. Abbiendi et al. (OPAL Collaboration), Phys.Lett. B 453, 138 (1999).
"Calibration of Center-Of-Mass Energies at LEP-1 for Precise Measurements of Z Properties," R. Assmann et al. (LEP Energy Working Group), Eur. Phys. J. C 6, 187 (1999).
Awards
- Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator, 2002
- Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, 2003
Curriculum Vitae pdf
