Research Areas
Outline
Professor Demina's research interests are in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics and Cosmology. Her interests include understanding the mechanism of elecro-weak symmetry breaking, the study of top quark properties, identification of heavy flavor jets, development of silicon tracking detectors and baryon acoustic oscillations.Professor Demina is also collaborating on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and on Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment.
Cosmology (Baryon Acoustic Oscillations)
Algorithm for fast evaluation of the two-point correlation function LaSSPIASilicon
o Picture of CMS Trackero Si Sensor QA at UofR
o Test Beam (links to publications)
Top Quark
o Top cross sectionS.Khanov: Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using Lepton+Jets Events with Lifetime b-Tagging
Published 9/15/05: Phys. Lett. B 626, 35 (2005)
M.-A. Pleier: Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using Kinematic Characteristics of Lepton+Jets Events
Published 9/15/05: Phys. Lett. B 626, 45 (2005)
o Top mass
C. Garcia: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Final State with the Matrix Element Method
Published 11/27/06: Phys. Rev. D 74, 092005 (2006)
Top Asymmetry
Amnon Harel, Douglas Orbaker for D0:
1. Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair ProductionPublished 4/9/08: Phys. Rev. Lett.100, 142002 (2008)
2. Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark-Antiquark Production
Published 12/12/11: Phys. Rev. D 84, 112005 (2011)
3. Measurement of Leptonic Asymmetries and Top Quark Polarization in tt Production
Published 01/24/13: Phys. Rev. D 87, 011103(R) (2013)
Burt Betchart for CMS:
o Plots
o link to RocFIT (top-pair reconstruction algorithms)
SUSY
SupersymmetrySu Jung Park @D0, Supersymmetric partner of Top in Top
Search for Admixture of Scalar Top Quarks in the tt Lepton+Jets Final State at √s = 1.96 TeV
o CDF, Supersymmetric partner of Top Quark, public
o CMS result (Hening, Burt)