Mark R. Adams

Address: Physics Department, Room 2274 845 W. Taylor Street University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607-7059 Tel.: (312) 996-3403 Fax: (312) 996-9016 Tel.: (630) 840-2179 at D0 in Fermilab mailto:adams@uic.edu

Research Interests

Experimental High Energy Physics

D0 Collaboration at the world's highest energy accelerator, Fermilab:

• Higgs production: limits ZH -> l⁺ l ^-b antib quark pairs

• Run I analysis Diboson production: Z-gam -> m⁺ m^- g

CMS Collaboration at CERN:

• Hadron Calorimeter trigger and Jet production

Educational Outreach - QuarkNet and CLASA

The UIC QuarkNet group’s central activity is use of cosmic ray detectors in the classroom. Our Chicago Large Air Shower Array (CLASA) includes twelve cosmic ray detector arrays located at multiple UIC locations and at nine Chicago-area high schools: Physics teachers and students from a dozen high schools have joined us for seven summers, building cosmic ray detectors for use in their classrooms and performing cosmic ray studies. We've measured the rate of cosmic rays from exploding stars, measured the muon's lifetime and done an experiment on the roof of the Sears Tower to demonstrate that time is relative. Look at an muon lifetime experiment example, recent student results on the radial size of large air showers (scaling) and previous workshop activities.

Research Group

Currently our group consists of 3 faculty, 3 postdoc3, and 4 graduate students. Areas of responsibility on CMS are the high level trigger for the calorimeter, jet production, b-tagging and silicon tracker monitoring. At D0 we are concentrating on top production and Higgs production limits.

As part of our ongoing detector development, we helped develop the central fiber tracker, central preshower, and silicon tracker detectors for the upgraded D0 experiment. We took responsibility for the Calorimeter Preprocessors in the Level 2 trigger. In CMS at CERN, we constructed optical connectors, readout path, and trigger electronics for the hadron calorimeters monitored silicon tracker production and installation.

Curriculum Vitae

I received a Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981.
After 4 years of postdoc with another Stony Brook group at Fermilab I joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985.

 BNL 686 Anomalous Low Mass Dilepton Production
 FNAL 605/772 Dimuon and Dihadron Production M(mu-mu)<20GeV
 FNAL 665 Deep-Inelastic Muon Scattering at Low Bjorken x
 FNAL D0 High pT Physics at sqrt(s)=1.8TeV
 CERN CMS High pT Physics at the LHC sqrt(s)=14TeV
 

Selected Publications

V. M. Abazov et al., The Upgraded D0 Detector, Nucl. Instr. and Methods A {565}, 463 (2006). PDF physics/0507191; Fermilab-Pub-05/341-E. PS

V. M. Abazov et al., Search for a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, submitted toPhys. Lett. B (2007); Fermilab-Pub-07/076-E. PS

V. M. Abazov et al., Search for the standard model higgs boson in the ppbar->ZH->nu nubar b bbar channel, Phys. Rev. Lett. {97}, 161803 (2006).

S. Abachi et al., Limits on WWZ and WWgamma couplings from pbarp -> e nu jj X events at sqrt(s)= 1.8TeV, Phys. Rev. Letts. 79, 1441 (1997). ps file.

S. Abachi et al., Studies of Gauge Boson Pair Production and Trilinear Couplings, Phys. Rev. D56, 6742 (1997). ps file.

B. Abbott et al., Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2451 (1999). ps file.

S. Abachi et al., Observation of the Top Quark, Phys. Rev. Letts 74, 2632 (1995). ps file.

M.R. Adams et al., Saturation of Shadowing at Very Low Bjorken x, Phys. Rev. Letts. 68,3266(1992).

D.M. Alde et al., Nuclear Dependence of the Production of the Upsilon Resonance at 800 Gev, Phys. Rev. Letts. 66, 2285 (1991).

M.R. Adams et al., Anomalous Electron-Pair Production in 17 GeV/c pion-proton Collisions, Phys. Dev. D27, 1977-1988 (1983).

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