Jeannine Wagner-Kuhr

Office: Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 Building 30.23 76131 Karlsruhe Germany Office: 9-8 E-mail: Jeannine.Wagner@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de Phone: +49 (0)721 608 43576

Mail address: Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Postfach 6980 76128 Karlsruhe

Research Projects:

• Top pair production (lepton + jet channel):

  CMS: Search for heavy resonances decaying to top pairs  (Physics Analysis Summary)

  CDF: Forward backward asymmetry   (public web page, Fermilab Today Article )

  CDF: W helicity   (public web page, Fermilab Today Article )

  
  

• Single top-quark production:

  CMS: Prospects for the measurement of the t-channel cross section   (Physics Analysis Summary)

  CDF: Measurement of the cross section   
           (public web page, Fermilab Today Article , Observation, FNAL press release)

  
  

• Higgs search:

  CDF: Search for a SM Higgs in the WH channel   (public web page, Fermilab Today Article )

  CMS: Longterm project is the measurement of the ttbarHiggs cross section and the measurement of the H-t coupling

  
  

• More information:

  Public CMS Physics Results
  Public Homepage of the CDF Top Group
  Public Homepage of the CDF Higgs Discovery Group
  
  

  Topics for diploma or PhD theses:

  Search for the Higgs boson at CDF (in german)

  Precision measurement of top quark properties at CMS (W-helicity, angle asymmetry)

  Development of an unfolding tool using neural networks for precision measurements of top quark properties

  Analysis of single top quark production at CMS (in german)

  Search for new particles decaying to top quark pairs at CMS (in german)

  Search for 4th quark generation at CMS (in german)






Teachings:

• Vorlesung und Übung: Teilchenphysik II - W, Z, Top an Collidern (SS 2012)

  Vorlesung und Übung - Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 2011/2012)

  Vorlesung und Übung - Moderne Methoden der Datenanalyse (SS 2011)

  Vorlesung - Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 2010/2011)

  Hauptseminar: Experimentelle und Theoretische Methoden der Colliderphysik (SS 2010)

  Übungen zur Vorlesung Physik I (WS 2009/10)

  Mathematik-Vorkurs für Physiker (WS 2009/10)

  Übungen zur Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 2008/2009)

  Hauptseminar: Schlüsselexperimente der Elementarteilchenphysik (SS 2008)

  Übungen zur Vorlesung Physik I (WS 2007/08)

  Mathematik-Vorkurs für Physiker (WS 2007/08)

  Koordination von Gruppenvorträgen in Maria Laach (2007)

  Übungen zur Vorlesung Physik VI (SS 2007)

  Computerpraktikum zur Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 2005/2006)

  
  







Recent Talks:

• The top quark - A window for new physics

  Teilchen- und Astroteilchen Seminar, Bonn, 12.1.2012

  
  

• Charge asymmetry in top pair production at the LHC

  CDF Collaboration Meeting, Fermilab, 29.9.2011

  
  

• Single Top at CMS

  Workshop on single top physics and fourth generation quarks, DESY , Hamburg, 5.9.2011

  
  

• Charge asymmetry in top pair production - A window for new physics

  Seminarvortrag, Wuppertal, 26.5.2011

  
  

• Top quark and Higgs physics at hadron colliders

  DPG 2011 (Hauptvortrag), Karlsruhe, 30.3.2011

  
  

• The Era of Hadron Colliders in Particle Physics Research

  Physikalisches Kolloquium, Halle, 8.7.2010

  
  

• CMS prospects for boosted objects

  BOOST 2010, Oxford, 23.6.2010

  
  

• Expectations for first single top studies in CMS in pp collisions

  DIS 2010, Florence, 20.4.2010

  
  

• Single Top at CMS

  3rd Annual Workshop of the Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", DESY, Hamburg, 12.11.2009

  
  

• Single Top Strategies and Potentials at CMS

  Workshop on single top physics and fourth generation quarks, DESY, Hamburg, 14.9.2009

  
  

• Top-Quark-Produktion bei CDF

  Physikalisches Kolloquium, Karlsruhe, 24.4.2009

  
  

• Tevatron Top Physics

  Physics at the LHC, Split, 1.10.2008

  
  

• Single Top Quark Production at CDF

  Joint PP/EP CERN seminar, Genf, 22.4.2008

  
  

• Top-Physik mit CDF II

  DPG 2008 (eingeladener Vortrag), Freiburg, 4.3.2008

  
  

• Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Top-Pair Production at CDF

  LHC Workshop, Bad Honnef, 9.2.2008

  
  

• Top mass and decay properties

  DIS 2007, München, 18.4.2007

  
  

• Strahlungseffekte bei dem CDF Siliziumdetektor

  DPG 2007, Heidelberg, 6.3.2007

  
  

• Measurements of the W-Helicity in Top Decays at CDF

  Pheno Symposium, Madison, 15.5.2006

  
  

• Hockerizations and SEU's

  CDF Silicon Workshop, Santa Babara, 12.5.2006

  
  

• Single Top - Improvements

  CDF Collaboration Meeting, Barcelona, 1.6.2005







Publications:

• Observation of Single Top Quark Production and Measurement of |Vtb| with CDF

  submitted to PRD, arXiv:1004.1181

  
  

• Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson
  using a Neural Network

  Phys. Rev. D80, 012002 (2009)

  
  

• First Observation of Electroweak Single Top Quark

  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009)

  
  

• Die Sumo-Ringer im Teilchenzoo

  Physik Journal 8 (2009) Nr.7

  
  

• Measurement of W-Boson Helicity Fractions in Top-Quark Decays Using cosTheta*

  Phys. Lett. B674, 160 (2009)

  
  

• Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section at CDF

  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252001 (2008)

  
  

• Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top-Quark Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202001 (2008)

  
  

• Measurement of the Helicity Fractions of W Bosons from Top Quark Decays using Fully Reconstructed tt-bar Events with CDF II

  Phys. Rev. D75, 052001 (2007)

  
  

• Measurement of Charm and Beauty Photoproduction at HERA using D\* mu Correlations

  Phys. Lett. B621, 56-71 (2005)

  
  






Proceedings:

• Expectations for first single top studies in CMS in pp collisions Talk / Writeup (to be published in Proceedings of Science)
  DIS'2010, Florence, 20.4.2010

  
  

• Tevatron Top Physics Talk / Writeup (published in Proceedings of Science: PoS(2008LHC)046)
  Physics at the LHC, Split, 1.10.2008

  
  

• Top mass and decay properties Talk / Writeup (published online, Open Access, by Atlantis Press)
  DIS'07, München, 18.4.2007

  
  

• Operational Experiences with the Silicon Detector at CDF Poster / Writeup (published in Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A576 (2007), 220)
  IWORID'06, Pisa, 5.7.2006

  
  

• Charm Production in ep Collisions Talk / Writeup (hep-ex/0505078 (2005))
  XXXXth Recontres de Moriond, La Thuille, 13.3.2005

  
  

• Heavy Flavour Physics at HERA Talk / Writeup (published in AIP Conf. Proc. 717(2004), 607)
  HADRON'03, Aschaffenburg, 2.9.2003

  
  

• D*-muon correlations and D meson production Talk / Writeup (published in Acta. Phys. Polon. B33 (2002), 3177-3182)
  DIS'02, Cracow, 1.5.2002







Diploma and PhD Theses:

• PhD:

  Charm and Beauty Production at HERA with D*-Muon Events

  
  

• Diploma:

  Bestimmung von ep-Wirkungsquerschnitten  für Charm- und Beauty-Produktion durch D*-Myon-Koinzidenzen







Links:

• FERMILAB

  H1

  DESY

  Particle Data Group




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