My Group Activities (March 2007)

CDF Experiment at the Tevatron (2 TeV proton-antiproton collider)

1. Higgs Searches
   • Higgs Hardware Trigger Improvemens: Level 2
     • Vadim Rusu (postdoc)
     • Michael Schmidt (1st year graduate student)
   • Trigger Algotithms Improvements:
     • Ivan Furic (postdoc)
     • Vadim Rusu (postdoc)
   • Higgs Physics Analyses
     • Kohei Yorita (postdoc)
     • Vadim Rusu (postdoc)

2. Top Quark Physics
   • Top Quark Mass measurement
     • Wojtek Fedorko (4th year graduate student - Ph.D. thesis)
   • Top Quark Lifetime measurement
     • Satomi Shiraishi (undergrad senior thesis)

3. Asymmetry in Matter and Anti-matter
   • Bs - anti-Bs Oscillation: Discovered and measured in 2006!
     • Ivan Furic (postdoc) - received Tollestrup Award for Bs Oscillation Discovery.

4. New Phenomena Searches
   • Direct Searches - ame-sign Lepton signatures for SUSY and other new physic
     • Vadim Rusu (postdoc)
   • Searches through Rare Decays in D --> mu mu
     • Edmund Berry (undergraduate senior thesis),
     • Ivan Furic (postdoc)

5. Trigger Operations (group responsibilities)
   • Level-1 and Level-2 Triggers
   • Silicon Vertex Trigger