Homepage of Thomas Kuhr

Research Projects

Search for new physics with time dependent CP violation measurements

• Belle: B -> D(*)D(*)
• CDF: Bs -> J/psi phi (Fermilab Today: Result of the Week)
• Belle/Belle II and CDF: Improved flavor tagging with neural networks

Measurement of Bs mixing

• CDF: Observation of Bs oscillations (Fermilab Press Release)

Heavy hadron spectroscopy

• Belle: Search for Y(4140) -> J/psi phi
• CDF: Study of X(3872) particle: mass (Fermilab Today: Result of the Week), quantum numbers
• CDF: Study of orbitally excited B mesons: B0**, Bs**

Preparations for future research projects

• Belle/Belle II: Improved full reconstruction with neural networks
• Belle II: Computing infrastructure and software development

Teaching

Lectures

• Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 09/10)
• Rechnernutzung in der Physik (SS 08)

Seminars

• Methoden der experimentellen Teilchenphysik (WS 09/10)
• Astro- und Elementarteilchenphysik (SS 09)

Exercises

• Moderne Methoden der Datenanalyse (each WS from 05/06 to 08/09)
• Physik VI (Kerne und Teilchen) (SS 05 and 08)
• Ausgewählte Kapitel der Physik (SS 07)

Recent Talks

• Search for New Physics in the Bs Sector at the Tevatron and
  New Charmonium-like States at B Factories
  DIS, Madrid, 29 and 27 Apr 2009

• Hints for New Physics in Bs Mixing?
  Hints for New Physics in Flavor Decays, KEK, 20 Mar 2009
  

• Heavy-Flavour-Physik bei CDF (Eingeladener Vortrag)
  DPG Tagung, München, 10 Mar 2009

• Quarkonium Spectroscopy and Decay Results from CDF
  Quarkonium Workshop, Nara, 3 Dec 2008

• Flavor-Physik bei CDF
  Physikalisches Kolloquium, Karlsruhe, 7 Nov 2008

• Rare B and Charm Decays
  Moriond QCD, La Thuile, 9 Mar 2008

• B Baryon Spectroscopy
  Lattice QCD Workshop, FNAL, 11 Dec 2007

• Lifetime Difference and CP Asymmetry in the B⁰_s -> J/psi phi decay
  SUSY, Karlsruhe, 31 Jul 2007

• Studies of B States at the Tevatron
  La Thuile, 9 Mar 2007

Publications

• Precision Measurement of the X(3872) Mass in J/psi pi+ pi- Decays
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 152001 (2009)

• Measurement of Resonance Parameters of Orbitally Excited Narrow B⁰ Mesons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 102003 (2009)

• First Flavor-Tagged Determination of Bounds on Mixing-Induced CP Violation in B⁰_s -> J/psi phi Decays
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161802 (2008)

• Measurement of Lifetime and Decay-Width Difference in B⁰_s -> J/psi phi Decays
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 121803 (2008)

• Observation of Orbitally Excited B_s Mesons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 082001 (2008)

• Analysis of the Quantum Numbers J^PC of the X(3872)
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132002 (2007)

• Observation of Bs Bsbar Oscillations
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242003 (2006)

• ALICE Physics Performance Report, Volume I
  J. Phys. G30, 1517 (2004)

Proceedings

• Search for New Physics in the Bs Sector at the Tevatron
  DIS, Madrid, 26-30 Apr 2009

• New Charmonium-like States at B-Factories
  DIS, Madrid, 26-30 Apr 2009

• Rare B and Charm Decays at the Tevatron
  Moriond QCD, La Thuile, 8-15 Mar 2008

• Lifetime Difference and CP Asymmetry in the B⁰_s -> J/psi phi decay
  SUSY, Karlsruhe, 26 Jul - 1 Aug 2007

• Studies of B States at the Tevatron
  La Thuile, 4-10 Mar 2007

• Bayesian approach for combined particle identification in ALICE experiment at LHC
  CHEP, Interlaken, 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2004

• Track reconstruction in high density environment
  CHEP, Interlaken, 27 Sep - 1 Oct 2004

• Open beauty photoproduction at HERA
  DIS, Liverpool, 25-30 Apr 2000