My group's work has included hardware for the Endcap Muon Trigger, in particular a prototype circuit board called the Sector Receiver (part of a successful trigger system test for which there is a published technical paper) and trigger software development. More recently, postdoc Slava Valuev, grad student Jason Mumford, and I contributed to studies of the discovery potential of CMS, starting with Z-prime bosons. Here's a 1.6 Mbyte pdf file of a talk Slava gave in 2002 giving a status report on this work. A pdf file of Slava's writeup of some of our work for a conference in Vienna in 2004 is on the CERN server. This work led to our contributions to the Physics Technical Design Report of CMS.
From spring 2004 until the end of 2006, I served as the Deputy Research Program Manager of the for the U.S. CMS Research Program. The U.S. subset of CMS consists of physicists and engineers at 48 universities and two national labs (Fermilab as host lab and Lawrence Livermore); see some web pages here and here. In January 2007 I began a three-year term as deputy to Jim Virdee, the Spokesperson (scientific and maangerial leader) of CMS.
Prior to CMS, the main research effort of my group was on the NOMAD neutrino oscillation experiment at CERN. In early 2003 Slava, with a little editorial help from me, finished the last two papers from this program, one on the NOMAD neutrino beam and one on a final neutrino oscillation search. The complete list of NOMAD publications co-authored by me is in the SLAC SPIRES database.
Since nearly all the experiments I have worked on have been searches for rare processes, I have studied a number of statistical techniques for analyzing the data. My contributions in this area can be found in the SLAC SPIRES database, plus a few others ( PhyStat-LHC Conference summary talk, and on the arxiv) not yet in the database.
My complete list of publications is in the SLAC SPIRES database.
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