Matthew Worcester Professional

    I am a post-doctoral researher in experimental high-energy physics at the University of Chicago. My research focus is to measure theta13, the remaining unmeasured neutrino sector mixing angle, using a nuclear reactor as a neutrino source. Currently, this is a very active field in HEP. The Chicago group is working on construction and all aspects of data analysis for the Double Chooz experiment in France. Our primary responsibility is to design and build a muon outer veto. I have also worked on a measurment of the charge asymmetry (deltaL), which is sensitive to CP violation in neutral kaon mixing, using the full KTeV E832 data samples.
    My graduate work was done at the University of California at Los Angeles, where I joined the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in 1998. My thesis, under Prof. David Saltzberg, was a search for physics beyond the Standard Model using a like-sign dilepton signature. My hardware responsibilities included the installation and testing of the UCLA tracklist boards designed by Dr. Jane Nachtman and the writing and maintainance of the online trigger and cross-section monitoring software.
    My undergraduate degrees are a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Literatures in English from the University of California at San Diego.

CV and Research Statement

My 2009 curriculum vitae in pdf.
My 2009 general research statement in pdf.

Selected Publications

T. Arisawa et al., "Online Monitoring for the CDF Run II Experiment and the Remote Operation Facilities," Proceedings of Science, ACAT:027 (2007).
E. Abouzaid et al., "Report of the APS Neutrino Study Working Group," LBNL-56599 (2004).
D. Acosta et al. (CDF), Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 061802 hep-ex/0405063 (2004).
M. Worcester, "Inclusive Search for Anomalous High-p_T Like-Sign Lepton Pair Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider," Ph.D. thesis, University of California at Los Angeles (2004).
M. Worcester, J. Nachtman, and D. Saltzberg (for CDF), Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 16S1B, 797 (2001).
S. Abel et al. (SUGRA Working Group for Run II of the Tevatron), hep-ph/0003154 (2000).
S. Rolli et al., in Proceedings of Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics: 250-255 (Padova, Italy, 2000).
J. Nachtman, D. Saltzberg, and M. Worcester (for CDF), in Proceedings of the 1999 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, hep-ex/9902010 (Los Angeles, CA, 1999).

Complete publications list (from Spires): find au worcester, matthew.

Recent Presentations

Double Chooz (pdf), September 1, 2009 at Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2009, Madison, Wisconsin
Double Chooz (pdf), December 4, 2006, University of Chicago
Braidwood Simulation (pdf), June 14, 2005 at the MAND-sim Workshop, Kansas State University
The Braidwood Experiment (pdf), February 7, 2005 at the University of Chicago and January 19, 2005 at the University of California, Los Angeles

Work-related Links

High-Energy Physics at the University of Chicago
UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

Double Chooz Experiment
KTeV Experiment

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Matthew Worcester

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