University of Mississippi
Publications and Presentations

Journal Publications

CMS

Tests of silicon sensors for the CMS pixel detector
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A4530:71-76, 2004.

Beam test results of the US-CMS forward pixel detector
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A488:271-281, 2002.

Studies of the response of the prototype CMS hadron calorimeter, including magnetic field effects, to pion, electron, and muon beams
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A457:75-100, 2001. hep-ex/0007045

BABAR

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction of D⁰→K^-π⁺
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100:051802, (2008). hep-ex/0704.2080

Branching Fraction Measurement of B⁰→D^(*)+π^- and B^-→D^(*)0π^- and Isospin Analysis of B→D^(*)π Decays
Phys. Rev. D 75, 031101(R) (2007). hep-ex/0610027

Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Υ(4S)→ B⁰B⁰
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95:042001, (2005). hep-ex/0504001

Search for the Rare Decay B⁰→D^*0γ
Phys. Rev. D 72, 051106(R) , (2005). hepex-0506070

Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider

Ionization Cooling Ring for Muons
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 8, 061003 (2005). physics/0504098

Recent progress in neutrino factory and muon collider research within the Muon Collaboration
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 6, 081001 (2003). hep-ex/0207031

Status of muon collider research and development and future plans
Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 2, 081001 (1999). physics/9901022

E791

Search for Rare and Forbidden Charm Meson Decays D⁰→ Vℓ⁺ℓ^- and hh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 86:3969-3972, 2001. hep-ex/0011077.

Review of Recent Searches for Rare and Forbidden Dilepton Decays of Charmed Mesons
Mod. Phys. Lett. A15:1399-1408, 2000. hep-ex/0009027.

Search for Rare and Forbidden Dilepton Decays of the D⁺, D_s, and D⁰ Charmed Mesons
Phys. Lett. B 462:401-409, 1999. hep-ex/9906045.

Presentations

CMS

Top Quark Physics with CMS
Presenter: R. Rahmat
44th Annual Fermilab Users Meeting,
Batavia, Illinois, 1 - 2 Jun 2011.
Slides (PDF)

CATFISH: Black Hole Simulation at CMS
Presenter: R. Godang
Joint Meeting of Pacific Region Particle Physics Communities (DPF and JPS 2006),
Honolulu, Hawaii, 29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006.
Slides (PDF)

Simulation of Heavily Irradiated Silicon Pixel Sensors and Comparison with Test Beam Measurements
Presenter: V. Chiochia,
2004 IEEE NSS/MIC/SNPS and RTSD Conference,
Rome, Italy October 16-22, 2004.
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. physics/0411143

Position Dependence of Charge Collection in Prototype Sensors for the CMS Pixel Detector
Presenter: T. Rohe,
13th IEEE — NPSS Real Time Conference (RT 2003),
Montreal, Canada, 18-23 May 2003.
Published in IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.51:1150-1157,2004.

CMS pixel detector — Overview
Presenter: L. M. Cremaldi,
11th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors (Vertex 2002),
Kona, Kailua, Hawaii, 3-8 Nov 2002.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A511:64-67,2003.

Radiation hardness studies of cooling fluids epoxies and capacitors for CMS pixel system
Presenter: M. Atac,
3rd International Conference on Radiation Effects on Semiconductor Materials, Detectors and Devices,
Florence, Italy, 28-30 June 2000.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A476:676-679, 2002.

DØ

Search for non-SM Light Higgs Boson in the h→γγ Channel at DØ in Run II
Presenter: A. Melnitchouk,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Published in International Journal of Moderns Physics A. hep-ex/0501067

Upgrade of the DØ DETECTOR: The TEVATRON Beyond 2 fb^-1
Presenter: B. Quinn,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Published in International Journal of Moderns Physics A. hep-ex/0501055

MICE

MICE-US Status and Plans
Presenter: D. M. Kaplan,
MUTAC Review,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, April 25, 2005.
Slides (PDF)

BABAR

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction of D⁰→K^-π⁺,
Presenter: R. Godang,
Joint Meeting of Pacific Region Particle Physics Communities (DPF and JPS 2006),
Honolulu, Hawaii, 29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006.
hep-ex/0612002

Measurements of |V_cb| and |V_ub| at BABAR
Presenter: R. Godang,
PANIC05: The Particles and Nuclei International Conference,
Santa Fe, NM — October 24-28, 2005, and to the American Institute of Physics,
Published in AIP Conf.Proc.842:720-722,2006.
hep-ex/0601004

The BABAR Electromagnetic Calorimeter: Status and Performance Improvements
Presenter: J. M. Bauer,
2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference,
Puerto Rico, October 23 - 29, 2005.
Slides (PDF)

Measurement of the Branching Fraction of Υ(4S)→ B⁰B⁰
Presenter: BaBar,
XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energy,
Uppsala, Sweden, June 30 - July 5 2005,
and to Physical Review Letters. hep-ex/0504001

Direct Measurement of Β(Υ(4S) → B⁰B⁰)
Presenter: R. Godang,
APS 2005: Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS),
Tampa, Florida, 16-19 April 2005.
Slides (PDF)

Study of B^-→ D₂^*(2460)⁰π^- and B^-→D₁(2420)⁰π^- Decays
Presenter: V. O. Eschenburg,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Int. J. Mod.Phys. A20 3698 (2005) hep-ex/0502021

Radiative Penguin Decays of B Mesons: Measurements of B→ K^*γ, B→ K₂^*(1430)γ, and Search for B⁰→Φγ
Presenter: J. M. Bauer,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Int. J. Mod.Phys. A20 3621 (2005) hep-ex/0412065

First Measurement of the Branching Fraction of e⁺e^- → B⁰B⁰
Presenter: R. Godang,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Slides (PDF), Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 3605 (2005). hep-ex/0411029

Measurement of the Branching Fraction of e⁺e^- →B⁰B⁰ at the Υ(4S) Resonance
Presenter: J. C. Wang,
The 32nd International Conference on High-Energy Physics,
ICHEP 04, 16-22 August, 2004, Beijing, China.
(Published at 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics Proceedings, hep-ex/0408022).

Measurement of Branching Fraction of Β(Υ(4S) → B⁰B⁰)
Presenter: R. Godang,
APS 2004: Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS),
Denver, Colorado, 1-4 May 2004.
Slides (PDF)

Absolute Energy Calibration with the Neutron-Activated Liquid-Source System at BABAR's CsI(Tl) Calorimeter
Presenter: J. M. Bauer,
2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference,
Portland, OR, October 19, 2003 – October 25, 2003.
IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 51 (2004) 1596. physics/0312128

Study of B Decays into the Final State D^(*)πππ at BABAR
Presenters: H. W. Zhao,
DPF 2003: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5-8 April 2003. hep-ex/0409055

Study of the Absolute Branching Fraction of Υ(4S) → B⁰B⁰ with Partial Reconstruction of B⁰ → D^*+ ℓ^- ν_ℓ at BABAR
Presenters: D. J. Summers,
DPF 2003: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5-8 April 2003. hep-ex/0404035
Slides (PDF)

Muon Collider Collaboration

6D Ionization Muon Cooling with Tabletop Rings
Presenter: D. J. Summers,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 3851 (2005). physics/0501071.

MUON ACCELERATION USING FIXED FIELD, ALTERNATING GRADIENT (FFAG) RINGS
Presenter: D. J. Summers,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 3861 (2005). physics/0411218.

Resolution of Nearly Mass Degenerate Higgs Bosons and Production of Black Hole Systems of Known Mass at a Muon Collider
Presenter: R. Godang,
DPF 2004: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Riverside, California, 26-31 Aug 2004.
Slides (PDF). Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20, 3409 (2005). hep-ph/0411248.

E791

Rare and Forbidden Decays of D Mesons
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
XXXVI^th Recontres de Moriond "Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories",
Les Arcs, France March 10-17, 2001.
Slides (PDF). hep-ex/0105028.

Search for Rare and Forbidden Decays of D⁺, D_s, and D⁰ Charmed Mesons
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
Fermilab Joint Theoretical and Experimental Seminar,
Batavia, IL October 29, 1999.
Slides (PDF)

Recent Results from Fermilab Charm Experiment E791
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
DPF 1999: Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS),
Los Angeles, California, January 5-9, 1999. hep-ex/9903067

Disk Arrays

Multi-Terabyte EIDE Disk Arrays running Linux RAID5
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 04),
Interlaken, Switzerland 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2004.
Poster (PDF), Paper (PDF)

Terabyte IDE RAID 5 Disk Arrays
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
Computing in High-Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 03),
La Jolla, CA 24-28 Mar 2003.
Slides (PDF), Paper (PDF)

Redundant Arrays of IDE Drives
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference,
San Diego, CA Nov 4-10, 2001.
Slides (PDF), Paper (PDF)

Working with Arrays of Inexpensive EIDE Disk Drives
Presenter: D. A. Sanders,
Computing in High Energy Physics (CHEP 98),
Chicago, IL Aug 31 - Sep 4 1998.
Paper (PDF)

University of Mississippi Publications and Presentations

Journal Publications

CMS

BABAR

Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider

E791

Presentations

CMS

DØ

MICE

BABAR

Muon Collider Collaboration

E791

Disk Arrays

University of Mississippi
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