| Brad Abbott | |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Awards: | Regent's Award for Superior Teaching |
| Education: | B.A. 1989 University of Minnesota, Morris |
| Ph.D. 1994 Purdue University | |
| Office: | 335 Nielsen Hall |
| Phone: | 405-325-3961, ext. 36335 |
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My research in experimental particle physics has recently been in heavy flavor physics, which includes both the bottom and the top quark. I am a member of the DØ collaboration at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, which is located near Chicago Illinois. At DØ, I have studied properties of the B meson, and in particular Bs mixing, which involves a Bs meson oscillating into its anti-matter partner. I have also been active in studying various particles including the χ(3872), and the Ξb– and Ωb baryons. Most recently I have been studying CP violation by studying the decays Bs → J/ψf0(980) and Bs → J/ψf2´(1525).
I am also a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located near Geneva, Switzerland. The ATLAS detector has been collecting data since 2010 and has accumulated a large data set at the world's highest center of mass energy. The LHC is one of the best places to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model, so I have primarily been involved in studying Super Symmetry to search for super-symmetric partners to the currently known forms of matter. With the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the LHC has hopefully just started on its path of many more discoveries.
Representative Publications:
- "Measurement of the Relative Branching Ratio of Bs → J/ψ f0(980) to Bs → J/ψ φ," Phys. Rev. D 85, 011103 (2012).
- "Observation of the Doubly Strange b Baryon Ωb–," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 232002 (2008)
- "Direct Observation of the Strange b Baryon Ξb–," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052001 (2007)
- "Direct Limits on the Bs0 Oscillation Frequency," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 021802 (2006)