Homepage of Thomas Kuhr

Research Projects

Search for new physics with time dependent CP violation measurements

• Belle: B -> D(*)D(*), B -> phi K pi
• CDF: Bs -> J/psi phi (Fermilab Today: Result of the Week), Bs lifetime in Bs -> J/psi f0
• Belle/Belle II and CDF: Improved flavor tagging with neural networks

Search for new physics in (rare) decays

• Belle: B -> K(*) nu nu, B -> D tau nu
• Belle: Improved full reconstruction

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**
• CDF: Study of excited charm baryons: &Lambda_c(2595), &Lambda_c(2625), &Sigma_c(2455) and &Sigma_c(2520)

Preparations for future research projects

• Belle II: Reconstruction and particle identification algorithms
• Belle II: Computing infrastructure and software development

Teaching

Lectures

• Experimentelle Flavorphysik (WS 11/12)
• Moderne Methoden der Datenanalyse (WS 10/11)
• Teilchenphysik für Fortgeschrittene (WS 09/10)
• Rechnernutzung in der Physik (SS 08)

Seminars

• Methoden der experimentellen Teilchenphysik (WS 09/10, 10/11, and 11/12)
• Schlüsselexperimente der Teilchenphysik (SS 10)
• Astro- und Elementarteilchenphysik (SS 09)

Exercises

• Moderne Experimentalphysik III (Kerne und Teilchen) (SS 11)
• 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

• Updated Search for B->mu+mu- Decays at CDF
  EPS 2011, Grenoble, 22 Jul 2011

• Heavy-flavor Baryons
  Hadron 2011, Munich, 16 Jun 2011

• SuperKEKB and Belle II
  LAPP Experimental Physics Seminar, Annecy, 10 Dec 2010

• Computing at Belle II
  CHEP2010, Taipei, 18 Oct 2010

• Recent Experimental B Physics Results
  EuroFlavour2010, München, 8 Sep 2010

• Bs Physics
  PIC2010, Karlsruhe, 2 Sep 2010

• Computing at Belle II
  DESY Computing Seminar, Hamburg, 14 Jun 2010

• Status of SuperKEKB and Belle II
  FPCP2010, Torino, 29 May 2010

• Upsilon Polarization Measurement at CDF
  DIS, Florence, 22 Apr 2010

• Status and Prospects of Belle and Belle II
  Seminar, Wuppertal, 10 Dec 2009

• 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

• Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase beta_s in B0s -> J/psi phi Decays with the CDF II Detector
  Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

• Measurement of branching ratio and Bs0 lifetime in the decay Bs0 -> J/psi f0(980) at CDF
  Phys. Rev. D 84, 052012 (2011)

• A Hierarchical NeuroBayes-based Algorithm for Full Reconstruction of B Mesons at B Factories
  Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 654:432-440 (2011)

• Measurements of the properties of Lambda_c(2595), Lambda_c(2625), Sigma_c(2455), and Sigma_c(2520) baryons
  Phys. Rev. D 84, 012003 (2011)

• Belle II Technical Design Report
  KEK Report 2010-1 (2010)

• 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. 102, 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

• Heavy Flavor Baryons at the Tevatron
  Hadron, Munich, 13-17 Jun, 2011

• Computing at Belle II
  CHEP2010, Taipei, 18-22 Oct 2010

• Bs Physics
  PIC, Karlsruhe, 1-4 Sep 2010

• Status of SuperKEKB and Belle II
  FPCP, Torino, 25-29 May 2010

• Upsilon Polarization Measurement at CDF
  DIS, Florence, 19-23 Apr 2010

• 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