PUBLICATIONS & TALKS

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2010 BY THE MEMBERS OF THIS RESEARCH TEAM

A. HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - ATLAS EXPERIMENT (Dr. Pat Skubic, Dr. Horst Severini, Dr. Saj Alam, Dr. Akhtar Mahmood)

1. “Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment”, Georges Aad et al., Phys.Lett.B700:163-180, 2011.

2. “Measurements of underlying-event properties using neutral and charged particles in pp collisions at 900 GeV and 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”, Georges Aad et al., Eur.Phys.J.C71:1636, 2011.

3. “Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106:131802, 2011.

4. “Search for Massive Long-lived Highly Ionising Particles with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Lett. B698:353-370, 2011.

5. “Study of Jet Shapes in Inclusive Jet Production in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS Detector”, Georges Aad et al., Phys.Rev.D83:052003, 2011.

6. “Measurement of the centrality dependence of J/psi yields and observation of Z production in lead-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Lett. B 697:294-312, 2011.

7. “Measurement of the production cross section for W-bosons in association with jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, Georges Aad et al., Phys.Lett.B698:325-345, 2011.

8.  “Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, Georges Aad et al., Phys.Rev.D 83:052005, 2011.

9. “Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.106:121803, 2011.

10. “Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV”, Georges Aad et al., Eur.Phys.J.C71:1577, 2011.

11. “Measurement of the W -> lnu and Z/gamma* -> ll production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, Georges Aad et al., JHEP 1012: 060, 2010.

12. “Measurement of inclusive jet and dijet cross sections in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy with the ATLAS detector”, Georges Aad et al., Eur. Phys. J. C71:1512, 2011.

13. “Search for Quark Contact Interactions in Dijet Angular Distributions in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Lett.B 694:327-345, 2011.

14. “Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC”, Georges Aad et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105:161801, 2010.

B. HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS - CMS EXPERIMENT (Dr. Neeti Parashar)

1. "Measurement of the differential dijet production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV", ., Phys.Lett.B700:187-206, 2011.

2. "Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Final State at the Large Hadron Collider", Serguei Chatrchyan et al., JHEP 1105:085, 2011.

3. "Measurement of the lepton charge asymmetry in inclusive W production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV", Serguei Chatrchyan et al., JHEP 1104:050, 2011.

4. "Search for Resonances in the Dilepton Mass Distribution in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV", Serguei Chatrchyan et al., JHEP 1105:093, 2011.

5. Measurement of W+W- Production and Search for the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, Serguei Chatrchyan et al., Phys.Lett.B699:25-47,2011.

6. "Strange Particle Production in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., JHEP 1105:064, 2011.

7. "Measurement of B anti-B Angular Correlations based on Secondary Vertex Reconstruction at sqrt(s)=7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., JHEP 1103:136, 2011.

8. "Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions and Search for Quark Compositeness in pp Collisions at sqrt(s = 7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.106:201804, 2011.

9. "First Measurement of Hadronic Event Shapes in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., Phys.Lett.B699:48-67, 2011.

10. "Dijet Azimuthal Decorrelations in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.106:122003, 2011.

11. "Inclusive b-hadron production cross section with muons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV", Vardan Khachatryan et al., JHEP 1103:090, 2011.

C. COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS - (Dr. Steve Alexander)

1. "Lowest Order Relativistic Corrections of Helium Computed Using Monte Carlo Methods" S.A. Alexander, Sumita Datta and R.L. Coldwell, Phys. Rev. A. 81, 032519 (2010).

LIST OF RECENT TALKS GIVEN BY THE MEMBERS OF THIS RESEARCH TEAM (FACULTY/STAFF/STUDENTS)

A. Dr. Akhtar Mahmood and Students

1. “The Sphinx Beowulf Cluster Project at Bellarmine University”, Jovan Andjelich, Dr. Akhtar Mahmood and Dr. Faiz Ahmad, 2010 Kentucky Academy of Sciences (KAS) Meeting at Western Kentucky University, Nov. 13, 2010.

 

2. "The Sphinx Beowulf Cluster Computing Project at Bellarmine University”, Dzmitry Miranovich, Christopher Tharp, Ben Draper, Antonio Castineira, Richard Jelsma, Dr. Akhtar Mahmood and Dr. Faiz Ahmad, 10th Annual Undergraduate Research Week at Bellarmine University, April, 2010.

 

3. “The ATLAS Tier3 Supercomputer at Bellarmine University”, Jovan Andjelich, Benjamin Draper, Drew Miles, Sean Dockery, Dr. Akhtar Mahmood and Dr. Syed Ahmad, 11th Annual Achievement Week April 10-17, 2011.

 

4. “Monte-Carlo Simulation and Data Analysis using the ATLAS Detector at the CERN-LHC (Large Hadron Collider”, Drew Miles, Cody Haycraft, Jovan Andjelich, Sean Dockery, Benjamin Draper, Dr. Akhtar Mahmood and Dr. Syed Ahmad, 11th Annual Achievement Week April 10-17, 2011.

B. Dr. Neeti Parashar

1. “The Current CMS Pixel Detector and its Upgrade”, Invited talk at the VIII Latin American International Symposium in High Energy Physics, Valparaiso, Chile, December, 6-12, 2010.

2. “Physics at the Large Hadron Collider”, Lecture series delivered at the Grand Nouvelle University Foundation, Haiti, November 13-20, 2010.

3. “Recreating Big Bang at the Large Hadron Collider”, Invited talk at the ASM International Society of Material Information, Calumet Chapter at Purdue University Calumet, October 14, 2010.

4. “Will the Large Hadron Collider produce Black Holes?”, Invited talk at Science Café of First Unitarian Church of Hobart, Indiana, April 23, 2010.

C. Dr. Steve Alexander

D. Dr. Horst Severini

1. “Employing Open Science Grid to support National Grid Initiatives in South America and South Africa'', Invited Poster Presentation at Supercomputing 2010, New Orleans, LA, November 15-18, 2010.

2. “Employing Open Science Grid to support National Grid Initiatives in South America and South Africa'', Invited Poster Presentation at the International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2010), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010; Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) Conference Proceedings, IOP Publishing.  CHEP conferences are held at roughly 18 month intervals, alternating between Europe, Asia, America and other parts of the world. The International Conferences on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) is a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the high energy and nuclear physics community, computer science, and information technology. The CHEP provides an international forum to exchange the experiences and needs of the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities. CHEP 2010 was organized by Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center.

3. “Employing Open Science Grid to support National Grid Initiatives in South America and South Africa'', Invited Poster Presentation at the OU Supercomputing Symposium 2010, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 5, 2010.

4. “BeStMan Storage Configuration at OU SWT2'', Invited Talk at the OSG Storage Forum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 22, 2010.

5. “Teaching High Performance Computing via Videoconferencing”, H. Neeman, H. Severini, D. Wu, and K. Kantardjieff, ACM Inroads, Vol 1, No 1, March 2010, pp. 67-71.

 

6. Served as one of the Co-Organizers and Co-Leaders of the OSG Grid School, held at UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 6 - 10, 2010.