Elizabeth Turner Worcester

I am an experimental high energy physicist, currently working very part-time and staying home with my children. My undergraduate degree is a B.S. in Physics from Georgia Tech. As an undergraduate, I worked on infrared photometry of SN1987a at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory(CTIO). My advisor at CTIO was Nick Suntzeff. I also worked on MACHO, where my primary responsibility was the frequent observation of objects suspected of deviating from standard microlensing using the 74" telescope at Mt. Stromlo Observatory. I began my graduate studies at UCLA where I joined KTeV, a fixed target experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory(FNAL), which completed its final period of data-taking in 1999. KTeV is designed to precisely measure the level of direct CP violation in the neutral kaon system, as well as to study many rare kaon and hyperon decays. While working on KTeV I collaborated closely with the group at University of Chicago and eventually transfered to Chicago. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2007. My thesis topic was the final measurement of epsilon'/epsilon, the direct CP violation parameter, and other parameters in the neutral kaon system. My thesis advisor was Edward Blucher. I am currently working on finalizing a few KTeV publications.

Below, please find my curriculum vitae.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

• Ph.D. Physics, December 2007.

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.

• M.S. Physics, December 1998.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

• B.S. Physics, June 1997.

Montpelier High School, Montpelier, VT.

• June 1993.

Research

University of Chicago, Winter 2003 to Fall 2007, KTeV.

• Improvements to simulation of electromagnetic showers in CsI calorimeter.
• Calibration of CsI calorimeter.
• Analysis of epsilon'/epsilon data.

UCLA, Spring 1998 to Fall 2002, KTeV.

• Maintenance and calibration of photon veto detectors and regenerator.
• Analysis of epsilon'/epsilon data.

Notre Dame, Summer 1997 to Winter 1998, MACHO/GMAN.

• Follow-up observations of MACHO microlensing events.
• Analysis software development.

CTIO, Winter 1996.

• IR photometry of SN1987A.
• Type Ia supernova search.
• Various observations of galaxy clusters, open clusters.

Teaching

UCLA, Winter 1998, TA, Elementary Particle Physics.

UCLA, Fall 1997, TA, Introduction to Electromagnetism.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 1996, TA, Calculus IV (multi-variable integration).

Selected Publications

E. Abouzaid, et al, Precise Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System, 2010.

E.T. Worcester, The Final Measurement of Epsilon'/Epsilon from KTeV, Proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, 2009.

E.T. Worcester, The Final Measurement of Epsilon'/Epsilon from KTeV, Proceedings of Heavy Quarks and Leptons, Melbourne, 2008.

Elizabeth Turner Worcester, Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System, Ph.D. thesis (The University of Chicago, December 2007).

A. Alavi-Harati, et al, Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System, Phys. Rev. D 67, 2003.

Bennett,D.P., Rhie,S.H., Becker,A.C., Butler,N., Dann,J., Kaspi,S. Leibowitz,E.M., Lipkin,Y., Maoz,D., Mendelson,H., Peterson,B.A., Quinn,J., Shemmer,O., Thomson,S., Turner,S.E., Nature, Volume 402, Issue 6757, pp57-59, 1999.

Rhie,S.H., Bennett,D.P., Butler, N., Becker,A.C., Tomaney,A., Bourke,A., Thomson,S., Peterson,E., Turner,S.E. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 1997, Volume 29, Number 5.

Becker,A.C., Bennett,D.P., Butler,N., Peterson,B.A., Rhie,S.H., Thomson,S.E., Turner,S.E. 1997 International Astronomical Union Circular 6720.

Turner,S.E., Suntzeff,N.B., Elias,J., Keane,M., Phillips,M.M., Depoy,D. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 1996, Volume 28, Number 4.

Garnavich,P., Challis,P, Clocchiatti,A., Schommer,R. Suntzeff,N., Athey,A., Turner,E. 1996 International Astronomical Union Circular 6358.

Garnavich,P., Challis,P., Suntzeff,N., Clocchiatti,A., Schmidt,B., Turner,E., Athey,A. 1996 International Astronomical Union Circular 6332.