Regina Demina Professor of Physics Experimental High Energy Physics office: phone: Bausch & Lomb 313 (585) 275-7357 phone: (585) 275-5306 fax: email: (585) 273-3237 regina@pas.rochester.edu home page: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~regina

Biographical Sketch

Prof. Demina received her B.A. in Physics (1985) and M.S. in Physics (1988) from Novosibirsk State University, and her Ph.D. in Physics (1994) from Northeasern University. After a postdoctoral position at Fermilab, she joined Kansas State University as Assistant Professor of Physics in 1999. She joined the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Physics in June of 2003, and was promoted to Associate Professor on July 1 of 2003. Prof. Demina was named a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator in 2001.Demina was promoted to Professor of physics in June 2007.

Research

Prof. Demina's research interests are in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics. Along with Profs. Ferbel and Slattery, she is collaborating on the D-Zero Experiment at Fermilab, where her interests are concerned with understanding the mechanism of elecro-weak symmetry breaking and the study of top quark properties. The identification of heavy flavor jets, such as b and c-jets, is vitally important for these studies, and Prof. Demina is working on the development of heavy flavor tagging algorithms that employ lifetime information obtained using silicon microstrip detectors. She co-lead the effort in the design and production of radiation hard high precision silicon sensors for use in the D-Zero Run2b upgrade.

Along with Professors Bodek, Slattery and Tipton, Prof. Demina is also collaborating on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where she is the deputy project leader of the silicon outer barrel construction project. Her interests at the hadron-hadron collider include the search for exotic particles such as the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles such as the the scalar top and bottom quarks, studies of the top quark, and development and construction of silicon tracking detectors.

Teaching

1. Physics for scientists and engineers PHY 122
   
2. Physics for scientists and engineers PHY 123
   
3. General Physics II PHY 114
   

Research projects

1. Work on silicon detectors
   
2. D0: Co-convener of Top quark properties group
   
3. D0:top-quark pair production using b-tagging D0 top web page.
4. Lectures in Beijing, China, August 2005: Top quark physics web page.
5. CMS physics, LPC at Fermilab: Tracker workshop
   

Talks

1. Backgrounds to ttbar and HF Production Mechanisms, August 8, 2003
   Power Point, pdf file
   
2. Research and development of silicon technology for Super LHC era
   PPT format
   
3. Ideas for Physics Analysis Center
   PPT format
   
4. Verfication of ALPGEN
   Word format
   Presentation to Monte Carlo workshop at Fermilab 12/04/03
   
5. ttjj production at Tevatron and LHC
   Presentation at CMS week, Higgs group meeting 12/09/03
   
6. TOB sensor qualification
   Presentation at CMS week, sensor meeting 12/10/03
   
7. Search for supersymmetry at the Tevatron
   Presentation at Moriond QCD 2004
   
8. Results of HPK sensor testing at UR
   Presentation to CMS tracker week, July 2004
   
   

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