CDF Graduate Student Theses

List of completed CDF graduate student theses.

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1985

G. Chiarelli: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: March 1985; Title: Detection of Heavy Flavours and New Particles at the Tevatron Collider

1986

Y. Hayashide: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Graduation date: February 1986; Title: Characteristics of CDF Endplug Electromagnetic Calorimeter

T. Kamon: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Graduation date: June 1986; Title: The CDF Central Electromagnetic Calorimeter for Proton-Antiproton Collision Experiment at Tevatron

1988

S. E. Kuhlmann: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: August 1988; Title: Inclusive Central Jet Production at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

M. Sekiguchi: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan; Graduation date: October 1988; Title: Multiplicity and Transverse Momentum Distributions of Charged Particles in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 630 and 1800 GeV

D. A. Smith: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1988; Title: Study of Muons Associated with Jets in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

T. K. Westhusing: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1988; Title: Observation of W -> mu nu Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

R. D. St. Denis: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: December 1988; Title: Dijet Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron

1989

Y. Morita: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: January 1989; Title: Measurement of the Intermediate Vecor-Boson Production Cross Section and Mass at the Fermilab Proton-Antiproton Collider

M. Miller: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: May 1989; Title: A Measurement of the Cross Section for W Production and Decay into Electron and Neutrino in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

D. N. Brown: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,; Graduation date: June 1989; Title: A Search for Double Parton Interactions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

R. M. Carey: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: July 1989; Title: Angular Distributions of Three Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron

S. Dell'Agnello Simon@fnald.fnal.gov: Institution: University/INFN Pisa; Advisor: G. Bellettini; Graduation Date: July 1989; Master's Thesis (Tesi di Laurea) Title: Two Jet Production at CDF

M. H. Schub: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: August 1989; Title: Strange Particle Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Mass Energies of 630 GeV and 1800 GeV

R. M. Harris: Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Graduation date: August 1989; Title: Two Jet Differential Cross Section and Structure Functions in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

B. L. Flaugher: Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ; Graduation date: October 1989; Title: Measurement of QCD Jet Broadening in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

J. E. Skarha: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Graduation date: 1989; Title: Forward Muon Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

B. Hubbard: Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Graduation date: November 1989; Title: Fragmentation Properties of Jets Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

George Redlinger redlinger@bnl.gov: Institution: University of Chicago; Advisor: Henry Frisch; Graduation Date: November 1989; Title: A Measurement of D* Production in Jets from pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV.

A. Byon: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: December 1989; Title: Central Production of Charged Particles at CDF

1990

W. Trischuk: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: April 1990; Title: A Measurement of the W Boson Mass in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

F. Snider: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: March 1990; Title: Charged Particle Pseudo-Rapidity Distributions in Minimum Bias and Intermediate Vector Boson Events at sqrt s = 1800 GeV

M. Contreras: Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Graduation date: April 1990; Title: Search for the Top Quark in Electron-Muon Events in the Collider Detector at Fermilab

H. Keutelian: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: May 1990; Title: Measurement of the Mass and Width of the Z Boson from Z -> e^+e^- Decay in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Kanda: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Graduation date: June 1990; Title: Measurement of Jet Fragmentation Properties in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Leone: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: June 1990; Title: Lepton Charge Asymmetry from W^+- -> 1^+- nu at the Tevatron Collider

P. Hu: Institution: Rutgers University, NJ; Graduation date: June 1990; Title: Search for Supersymmetric Particles in p pbar Collisions at sqrt s 1.8 TeV

P. Schlabach: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Graduation date: August 1990; Title: W Mass Measurement with Muons at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

T. Mimashi: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; Graduation date: September 1990; Title: The Measurement of Cross Section of Drell-Yan Process in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1800 GeV

J. Walsh: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: 1990; Title: Search for the Top Quark in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s 1.8 TeV

P. Hurst: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,; Graduation date: October 1990; Title: A Measurement of sin^2 theta_W from the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in pp -> Z^0 -> e^+e^- Interactions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

P. Derwent: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: November 1990; Title: A Measurement of sigma.B(W->e nu) and sigma.B(Z^o->e^+e^-) in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1800 GeV

T. Hessing: Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Graduation date: December 1990; Title: A Search for Quark Compositeness with the CDF Detector at the Fermilab Collider

1991

B. L. Winer: Institution: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Graduation date: February 1991; Title: The W Boson Transverse Momentum Spectrum in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

G. Punzi: Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: February 1991; Title: Invariant Mass Spectrum of Jet-Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

J. Ng: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: May 1991; Title: Measurement of the Z Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution at the Tevatron

A. Roodman: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: June 1991; Title: A Measurement of the ppbar -> W -> Tau Nu Cross Section Times Branching Ratio as a Test of Lepton Universality

L. DeMortier: Institution: Brandeis University,; Graduation date: September 1991; Title: Search for the Top Quark in Events with a Lepton and Two or More Jets at the Fermilab Collider Detector

F. Ukegawa: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: September 1991; Title: Bottom Quark Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

L. Song: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: October 1991; Title: Measurement of the B^0Bbar^0 Mixing at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

D. Connor: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: November 1991; Title: Energy Fractions of Three-Jet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

K. Byrum: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Graduation date: December 1991; Title: The Lepton Charge Asymmetry from W^\pm -> mu^\pm nu Using Forward Muons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

V. Scarpine: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1991; Title: A Measurement of the Inclusive Drell-Yan Differential Cross Section with Dimuon at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1992

R. Hughes: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: January 1992; Title: Reconstruction of B Meson Decays and Measurement of the b Quark and B Meson Production Cross Sections at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

L. Markosky: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Graduation date: January 1992; Title: A Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry and sin^2 theta_W from the Process Z^0 --> mu^+mu^- at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

M. Ninomiya: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: January 1992; Title: Study of Jet Fragmentation Properties in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Yoshi Seiya: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: January 1992; Title: Search for the Top Quark in DiLepton Events in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

S. Ogawa: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: January 1992; Title: Measurement of Electron-Positron Asymmetry in W Decays from 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

L. Nakae: Institution: Brandeis University; Graduation date: April 1992; Title: Direct Photon Center-of-Mass Angular Distributions in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Vejcik III: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: August 1992; Title: A Measurement of the b Quark and Neutral B Meson Production Cross Sections in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV

R. Markeloff: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Graduation date: August 1992; Title: An Analysis of Monojet Data in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

L. Keeble: Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Graduation date: September 15, 1992; Title: A Study of Four-Jet Events and Search for Double Parton Interactions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

E. Meschi Tesi di Laurea: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: November 20, 1992; Title: A Study of QCD Radiation Jet Events at the Fermilab ppbar Collider

B. T. Huffman: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: December 1992; Title: Measuring the Inclusive Central Muon Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

David Gerdes gerdes@umich.edu: Institution: University of Chicago; Advisor: Melvyn Shochet; Graduation Date: December 1992; Title: Search for Wprime->e nu and Wprime-> mu nu in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV (CDF note 1358)

1993

S. M. Moulding: Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Graduation date: February 4, 1993; Title: A Search for Generation -1 Leptoquarks in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Carmine E. Pagliarone pagliarone@fnal.gov, carmine.pagliarone@pi.infn.it: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Advisor: Franco Cervelli, David A. Smith; Graduation Date: July 1993; Title: The New Muon System for the CDF Experiment.

P. A. Maas: Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; Graduation date: August 1993; Title: Properties of Events Containing a Photon and Several Jets Seen in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

M. Incagli: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: September 14, 1993; Title: Dijet Invariant Mass Spectrum at Proton-Antiproton Interactions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

V. Bolognesi: Institution: University of Firenze, Florence, Italy; Graduation date: September 23, 1993; Title: Measurement of B-Meson Lifetimes at CDF

R. Drucker: Institution: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Graduation date: November 1993; Title: Properties of W + Jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

D. Benjamin: Institution: Tufts University, Medford, MA; Graduation date: November 1993; Title: Measurement of the Production Cross Section for W + gamma in the Electron Channel in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV pbar p Collisions

J. Lamoureux: Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; Graduation date: December 1993; Title: Direct b-bar b Production in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

C. Boswell: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: December 1993; Title: Chi Meson Production in Proton-Antiproton Interactions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV

R. Schwartz: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1993; Title: A Measurement of sigma(W -> mu nu)/sigma(Z -> mu mu) at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

C. Luchini: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1993; Title: A Measurement of W gamma and Z gamma Cross Sections in the Muon Channel in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

C. Jessop: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: December 1993; Title: Search for the Charged Higgs Particle

1994

Mary Roach-Bellino,: Institution: Tufts University; Graduation date: January 1994; Title: Z + gamma Cross Section Measurement sigma B(Z + gamma) in the Electron Channel for pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8, and Limits for the ZZ gamma and Z gamma gamma Anomalous Couplings

D. Kardelis: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: January 1994; Title: A Measurement of sigma . B(Z -> mu^+mu^-) in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Dell'Agnello Simon@fnald.fnal.gov: Institution: University of Pisa/INFN, Pisa, Italy; Advisor: G. Bellettini; Graduation date: February 1, 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark Using Secondary Vertexing Tags in W + Jet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Leone,: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: February 1, 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark at CDF in Events with Two Charged Leptons Neutrinos, and Hadron Jets

M. Cobal: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: February 1, 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark at CDF Studying the Structure of Event with One Lepton a Neutrino and Jets

B. Farhat: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: February 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

R. Mattingly: Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Graduation date: March 1994; Title: The Cross Section for the Production of b-bbar Pairs in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

T. Chikamatsu: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: April 1994; Title: Top-Quark Search in the Dilepton Channel in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

M. W. Bailey: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: May 1994; Title: Measurement of the b Quark and B Meson Cross-Sections in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using Fully Reconstructed Decays

William Carl Wester, III: Institution: University of California, Berkeley, CA; Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro; Graduation date: April 28, 1994; Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the B_s^0 Meson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Kopp: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: May 1994; Title: Measurement of the Ratio R = sigma * B(ppbar -> W -> e nu)/sigma * B (ppbar -> Z -> ee) in ppbar Collisions at root s = 1800 Gev

Mark Dickson: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Advisor: Arie Bodek; Graduation date: May 1994; Title: The Charge Asymmetry in W Boson Decays Produced in ppbar Collisions

M. Takano: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: June 1994; Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Two Isolated Prompt Photons in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

A. Spies: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: July 1994; Title: A Measurement of the Charged and Neutral B Meson Lifetimes Using Fully Reconstructed Decay Modes

J. Tonnison: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Graduation date: August 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark in Lepton plus Jets Events at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Y. Cen: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: August 26, 1994; Title: Measurement of the B_s Meson Lifetime

B. Badgett: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Graduation date: September 1994; Title: Measurement of sigma*B(W -> mu nu) sigma*B(Z -> mu mu) and R(muon) = sigma*W(W -> mu nu)/sigma*B(Z -> mu mu) in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. Dell-Agnello: Institution: University of Pisa, Faculty of Science, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: September 1994; Title: Top-Quark Search with Secondary Vertexing Tags in W + Multijet Events in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

D. P. Saltzberg: Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: October 4, 1994; Title: A Measurement of the W Mass

N. Turini: Institution: University of Bologna, Faculty of Science, Bologna, Italy; Graduation date: November 1994; Title: Measurement of J/Psi and b Quark Cross Section at CDF

T. Y. Song: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Graduation date: December 1994; Title: Measurement of Bottom Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV using Muon Impact Parameter

J. Wang: Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: December 1994; Title: Search for the Top Quark Decaying to a Charged Higgs Boson in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

G. T. Watts: Institution: Rochester University, Rochester, NY; Graduation date: December 1994; Title: Evidence for Top Quark Production in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

M. Vondracek: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: December 1994; Title: Measurement of sigma*BR(W+gamma) and sigma*BR(Z+gamma) and Search for Anomalous W-gamma and Z-gamma Couplings at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1995

R. Oishi: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: January 1995; Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Charmed Meson Production Associated with a Prompt Photon in 1.8 TeV Photon-Antiproton Collisions

D. Lucchesi: Institution: University of Pisa, Faculty of Science, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: February 1995; Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B^0d-B^0-bar Mixing at CDF

R. Keup: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: April 1995; Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the W Vector Boson from pbar p -> W -> mu nu at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

R. A. Dunn: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Graduation date: May 1995; Title: Measurement of sigma * B(W -> tau nu + jets) via Precision Tracking in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

C. Anway-Wiese: Institution: University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Graduation date: June 1995; Title: Search for Rare Decays of the B Meson at 1.8 TeV ppbar Collisions at CDF

J. Romano: Institution: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: August 1995; Title: A Search for Top Quark Pair Production in the Dilepton Decay Mode

J. Gonzalez-Atavales: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: August 1995; Title: Measurement of the Ratio BR(B^+ -> J/psi K^+)/BR(B^0 -> J/psi K^0) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Carol Margaret Hawk: Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ; Advisor: Tom Devlin; Graduation date: October 1995

E. Meschi: Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: October 1995; Title: A Measurement of the B^0 bar B^0 Mixing Using Muon Pairs at CDF

Doug Glenzinski: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: November 1995; Title: Observation of the Top Quark in Proton Anti-Proton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.8 TeV

S. Hauger: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC; Graduation date: December 1995; Title: Measurement of Z -> ee + N Jet Cross Sections in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

D. Neuberger: Institution: University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Graduation date: December 1995; Title: Studies of Weak Boson-Photon Production in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV ppbar Collisions at the Tevatron Collider

1996

Simona Rolli rolli@fnal.gov: Institution: Pavia University, Pavia, Italy; Advisor: Mario Greco; Graduation date: January 10, 1996; Title: Fragmentation Phenomena on QCD: Fragmentation Functions Approach and Parton Shower

H. Mitsushio: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: January 1996; Title: Measurement of Neutral B Meson Mixing in Electron-Muon Events in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Randal Hans: Institution: Yale University, New Haven, CT; Advisor: Michael P. Schmidt; Graduation date: January 18, 1996; Title: Polarization in Vector-Vector Decay of B Mesons at CDF

Franco Tartarelli: Institution: University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Graduation date: January 1996; Title: Measurement of the CKM Element V_tb at CDF

Patriazia Azzi: Institution: Padova University, Padova, Italy; Graduation date: February 12, 1996; Title: Observation of Top Quark at CDF in the All Hadronic Mode

Mark Charles Kruse: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation date: February 19, 1996; Title: Observation of Top Quark Pair Production in the Dilepton Decay Channel from Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

I. Yu: Institution: Yale University, New Haven, CT; Graduation date: February 19, 1996; Title: Measurement of bb-bar Correlations B^0 B-bar^0 Mixing, and a Limit on the CP Violating Parameter in pbar p Collisions at CDF

T. Asakawa: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: February 1996; Title: Properties of High-Mass Multijet Events at the Fermilab Proton-Antiproton Collider

Michele Gallinaro: Institution: University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Graduation date: February 1996; Title: Observation of the Top Quark at CDF in the Dilepton Channel with Electrons Muons and Taus

Farrukh Azfar: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: March 1996; Title: Measurement of the Lifetime of the B^0_s Meson Using the Exclusive Decay Mode B^0_s -> J/psi phi

Andrew Martin: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL; Graduation date: April 1996; Title: A Search for Top Quarks in pbar p Collisions Using Dileptons

Gary Houk: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Advisor: Hugh H. Williams; Graduation date: April 1996; Title: Identification of Top Quark Production Using Kinematic and B-Tagging Techniques in the Lepton + Jets Channels in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

J. Tseng: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: May 1996; Title: Observation of Semileptonic Decays of Baryons Containing Bottom Quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron

A. Maghakian: Institution: Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Graduation date: May 1996; Title: Inclusive Photon Differential Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

David Kestenbaum: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: May 1996; Title: Observation of the Top Quark in Soft Lepton Tagged W^+ Jet Events

Thomas Baumann: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: May 1996; Title: Search for 3rd Generation Leptoquarks in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Y. Kato: Institution: Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; Graduation date: June 1996; Title: Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

T. Ino: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: June 1996; Title: Measurement of Prompt Photon Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

R. Hamilton: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Graduation date: June 1996; Title: Measurement of the Charm-Photon Cross Section in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

G. Sganos: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation date: June 1996; Title: A Study of B Meson Decays Involving a J/psi Meson

P. Yeh: Institution: National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduation date: June 1996; Title: Measurement of Top Quark Mass from Dilepton Events using Invariant Mass of Lepton and b Jet

Jeff Cammerata: Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Graduation date: August 1996; Title: A Lifetime Measurement of the Exclusive Charged and Neutral B Meson States

Manoj Kumar Pillai: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Advisor: Arie Bodek; Graduation date: September 1996; Title: A Search for New Gauge Bosons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Farhad Keyvan: Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Advisor: Jay Hauser; Graduation date: September 13, 1996; Title: A Search for Supersymmetric Quarks and Gluons in pbar p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV with the CDF Detector

Eiichiro Hayashi: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: September 1996; Title: Search for New Neutral Gauge Bosons in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

C. Wei: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC; Graduation date: November 1996; Title: Search for New Particles Decaying to Dijets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

S. D. Metzler: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graduation date: December 1996; Title: Measurement of the Ratio of BR B(B^+/- -> J/psi pi^+)/B(B^+/- -> J/psi K^+) and Search for the B_c

Phillip T. Koehn: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Graduation date: December 1996; Title: Measurement of the Heavy Flavor Content of Jets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

1997

Qun Fan: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA; Advisor: Arie Bodek; Graduation Date: February 1997; Title: A Measurement of the Lepton Charge Asymmetry in W Decays Produced in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV

Prem P. Singh: Institution: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Advisor: Paul Shepard; Graduation date: January 1997; Title: Search for the B_c Meson at CDF

S. Aota: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: January 1997; Title: A Measurement of Top Quark Mass and Kinematic Properties in Fermilab 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

M. Shimojima: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan; Graduation date: January 1997; Title: Measurement of the Photon Angular Distribution in the W + Photon Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Troy Daniels: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Paris Sphicas; Graduation date: April 4, 1997; Title: Charmonium Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Wasiq Bokhari: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Paraskevas Sphicas; Graduation date: April 30, 1997; Title: Observation of the Fully Hadronic Decay of ttbar Pairs in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Chyi C. Miao: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Graduation date: May 1997; Title: Measurement of the ttbar Cross Section in the Lepton Plus Jets Channel in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Marc D. Peters marc_peters@stanfordalumni.org: Institution: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro; Graduation Date: May 1997; Title: A Measurement of B Meson Oscillations Using Inclusive Leptons in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

Carmine E. Pagliarone pagliarone@fnal.gov, carmine.pagliarone@pi.infn.it: Institution: University of Turin - Turin (ITALY); Advisor: G. Bellettini, A. Marzari-Chiesa; Graduation Date: June 1997; Title: Search for the Supersymmetric partner of the top quark in p anti-p collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.8 TeV.

Christian Couyoumtzelis: Institution: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Graduation date: June 9, 1997; Title: Search for the Charged Higgs Boson H^+/- in the Decays t -> H^+ b by a Direct Measurement of an Excess in the Hadronic Decay Mode of the Tau Lepton

Alexey Titov titov@fnal.gov: Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos; Graduation Date: June 12, 1997; Title: Observation and Study of Exclusive Decays of Beauty Baryons at the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider

T. Kuwabara: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: June 1997; Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B^0 B^0bar Mixing in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

H. Sato: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: June 1997; Title: Measurement of W-Photon and Z-Photon Couplings in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Marcus Hohlmann: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Graduation date: August 1997; Title: Observation of Top Quark Pairs in the Dilepton Decay Channel Using Electrons Muons, and, Taus

D. P. Cronin-Hennessy: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC; Advisor: Thomas Phillips; Graduation date: August 1997; Title: Tests of Perturbative QCD in W + Jets Events Produced in sqrt s = 1.8 TeV pbar p Collisions

Takeshi Takano: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Graduation date: September 1997; Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Diphoton Production in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Kirsten Anne Tollefson kirsten@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Advisor: Paul Tipton; Graduation date: October 1997; Title: A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass

Suren Bagdasarov: Institution: Rockefeller University, New York, NY; Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos; Graduation date: October 1997; Title: Observation of Diffractive W-Boson Production at the Tevatron

Owen R. Long owen@electron.physics.ucsb.edu: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Advisor: Nigel Lockyer; Graduation Date: November 1997; Title: A Proper Time Dependent Measurement of Delta m_d Using Jet Charge and Soft Lepton Flavor Tagging

Petar Maksimovic petar@fnal.gov: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Paraskevas A. Sphicas; Graduation date: November 1997; Title: Observation of pi-B Meson Charge-Flavor Correlations and Measurement of Time-Dependent B^0 B^0bar Mixing in ppbar Collisions

Kevin Burkett: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Graduation date: December 1997; Title: Measurement of the Lifetime of the B^0_s Meson and the Width Difference in the B^0_s Bbar^0_s System in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Hisanori Kambara hisanori.kambara@cern.ch: Institution: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Advisor: Allan Clark; Graduation date: February 1998; Title: Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV p-pbar at CDF and Silicon Detector Readout Electronics Development with ATLAS

Stephan C. Van Den Brink: Institution: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Advisor: Gene Engels, Paul Shepard; Graduation date: December 8, 1997; Title: Measurement of Time Dependent B_d^0 B_d^0 bar Mixing Parameter Using Opposite Side Lepton and D^*+/- Meson in ppbar Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Benn Tannenbaum tannenba@fnal.gov: Institution: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Advisor: John Matthews; Graduation date: December 1997; Title: A Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Dave Toback toback@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Advisor: Henry Frisch; Graduation date: December 1997; Title: Searches for New Physics in Diphoton Events in pbar p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Edward Kuns ekuns@fnal.gov: Institution: Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ; Advisor: Terence Watts; Graduation date: January 1998; Title: A Study of W Decay Charge Asymmetry Using Hadronic Tau Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt s = 1.8 TeV

Andreas Warburton awarburt@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Advisor: Pekka Sinervo; Graduation Date: December 18, 1997; Title: A Study of Exclusive Nonleptonic Decays of B Mesons into Final States of Strange Mesons and 1S or 2S Charmonia

1998

E. Cocca: Institution: University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Graduation date: January 28, 1998; Title: Feasibility Study of Lambda_b Lifetime using It's Semileptonic Decays

Liqun Zhang: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison; Graduation date: ?; Title: The WW cross section in the leptonic decay mode

Jun-ichi Suzuki jsuzuki@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Koji Takikawa; Graduation Date: January 1998; Title: Observation of B_c Meson in 1.8-TeV Proton-AntiProton Collisions

Masakazu Okabe okabe@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Shin-hong Kim; Graduation Date: January 1998; Title: Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant from Two Jet Production Cross Section in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

William Joseph Ashmanskas ashmanskas@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Berkeley; Advisor: Majorie D. Shapiro; Graduation Date: May 1998; Title: A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV

Andrea Bocci bocci@cdfsga.fnal.gov: Institution: University of Pisa; Advisor: Giorgio Bellettini; Graduation Date: July 1998; Master's Thesis: A study of jet energy measurement at CDF

Kara Hoffman kara@fnal.gov: Institution: Purdue University; Advisor: Daniella Bortoletto; Graduation Date: July 1998; Title: The Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the b bbar Spectrum Observed in Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Jim Olsen jolsen@fnald.fnal.gov: Institution: University of Wisconsin; Advisor: Duncan Carlsmith; Graduation Date: August 1998; Title: Measurement of b-bbar Rapidity Correlations in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV.

Leslie Stevan Groer groer@fnal.gov: Institution: Rutgers University, New Jersey; Advisor: Terence Watts; Graduation Date: October 1998; Title: A Search for Charged Higgs Boson Decays of the Top Quark using Hadronic Decays of the Tau Lepton in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV at CDF

Ken Kelley kkelley@mit.fnal.gov: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Paris Sphicas; Graduation Date: September 1998; Title: Measurement of the CP Violation Parameter sin(2 beta)

Andrew Gordon agordon@fnald.fnal.gov: Institution: Harvard University, MA; Advisor: Melissa Franklin; Graduation Date: November 1998; Title: Measurement of the W Mass in the Electron Decay Channel with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Jay R. Dittmann dittmann@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University; Advisor: Alfred Goshaw; Graduation Date: December 1998; Title: Measurement of the W >=1 Jet Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV

1999

Bjoern Hinrichsen bjoern@physics.utoronto.ca: Institution: University of Toronto; Advisor: William Trischuk; Graduation Date: January 1999; Title: A Measurement of the Dijet Mass Differential Cross Section in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Dejan Vucinic dejan@mit.edu: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Paraskevas Sphicas; Graduation Date: February 1999; Title: Observation of Excited B Mesons in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Wendy J. Taylor wendyt@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation Date: January 1999; Title: A Measurement of b-quark Fragmentation Fractions in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt (s)=1.8 TeV

Hiroyuki Minato minato@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Japan; Advisor: Koji Takikawa; Graduation Date: March 1999; Title: Measurement of the W Boson Transverse Momentum Distribution in 1.8 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Alexander Akopian akopian@physics.rockefeller.edu: Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York; Advisor: Prof. Anwar Bhatti; Graduation Date: March 1999; Title: Scaling Violation in Inclusive Jet Production

Hirofumi Ikeda ikeda_h@cam.hi-ho.ne.jp: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim; Graduation Date: March 1999; Title: Observation of Diffractive Bottom Quark Production in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Niccolo' Moggi moggi@fnal.gov: Institution: Universita' di Pisa, Italy; Advisor: Gianluca Introzzi; Graduation Date: April 1999; Title: Soft Multiparticle Production in pp(bar) Interactions at 1800 and 630 GeV

Kristo Karr karr@fnal.gov: Institution: Tufts University; Advisor: Krzysztof Sliwa; Graduation Date: May 1999; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Application of the Dalitz-Goldstein Method to Dilepton Events

Nichelle Bruner bruner@gluino.phys.unm.edu: Institution: University of New Mexico; Advisor: Michael Gold; Graduation Date: July 1999; Title: A Search for Production of Scalar Top at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Adam Hardman adamh@fnal.gov: Institution: Purdue University; Advisor: Arthur Garfinkel; Graduation Date: August 1999; Title: A Measurement of the Width of the W Vector Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Armin K?ngeter koen@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.e: Institution: Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany; Advisor: Thomas M?ller, Jay Hauser; Graduation Date: November 1999; Title: Search for R-Parity violating SUSY in the CDF Multi-Lepton channel

Rocio Vilar Cortabitarte rocio@fnal.gov: Institution: Universidad de Cantabria; Advisor: Teresa Rodrigo; Graduation Date: November 1999; Title:Search for the Higgs Boson and Technicolor Particles in ppbar Colisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

2000

Kostas Kordas kordas@lal.in2p3.fr: Institution: McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Advisor: Kenneth Ragan; Graduation Date: January 2000; Title: Search for Penguin Decays of B Mesons at CDF

Andrew F. Scott ascott@fnal.gov: Institution: UCLA; Advisor: Jay Hauser; Graduation Date: February 2000; Title: A Measurement of Low-Mass Drell-Yan Production at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Frank Hartmann frank.hartmann@cern.ch: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Thomas Muller; Graduation Date: February 2000; Title: Entwicklungsarbeit am Spurendetektor fur das CDF Experiment am Tevatron (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/00-11)

Toshiaki Kikuchi kikuchi@hep.px.tsukuba.ac.jp: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Japan; Advisor: Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: March 2000; Title: Search for Single Top Quark Production in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Joseph Steele steele@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison; Advisor: Lee Pondrom; Graduation Date: May 2000; Title: Inclusive Cross Section of J/Psi Particles in the Forward Direction at CDF

Todd Keaffaber: Institution: Purdue University; Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation Date: May 2000; Title: Measurement of the B+ Meson Cross Section in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.8 TeV Using the Fully Reconstructed Decay B+ -> J/psi K+

Tushar Shah: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Jerome I. Friedman; Graduation Date: July 2000; Title: Measurement of the B^0_d Mixing Frequency Using a New Probability Based Self-Tagging Algorithm Applied to Inclusive Lepton Events from p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Jinbo Liu liujb@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester; Advisor: Arie Bodek; Graduation Date: August 2000; Title: Measurement of dsigma/dy for Drell-Yan ee Pairs in the Z Boson Region at CDF

Maria Spiropulu smaria@fnal.gov: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: John E. Huth; Graduation Date: August 2000; Title: A Blind Search for Supersymmetry in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV using the Missing Energy plus Multijet channel

Robert Cropp: Institution: Univsersity of Toronto; Advisor: William Trischuk; Graduation Date: September 2000; Title: A Measurement of the J/Psi polarisation at root(s)=1.8 TeV

Jeffrey W. Berryhill berryhill@hep.uchicago.edu: Institution: University of Chicago, IL; Advisor: Henry Frisch; Graduation Date: December 2000; Title: A Search for New Physics in Photon-Lepton Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Andrew Robinson: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation Date: 2000; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Transverse Momentum Distribution

2001

Hosai Nakada hosai@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Advisor: Professor Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: January 2001; Title: Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function of the Antiproton in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Masashi Tanaka masa@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Koji Takikawa; Graduation Date: January 2001; Title: Search for Radiative B-Hadron Decays with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Paolo Gatti gatti@pd.infn.it: Institution: University of Padova, Italy; Advisor: Dario Bisello; Graduation Date: February 2001; Title: Performance of the new tracking system at CDF II

Giuseppe Latino latino@cdfsga.fnal.gov, giuseppe.latino@pi.infn.it: Institution: University of Cassino, Italy; Advisor: Giovanni Maria Piacentino, Stefano Lami; Graduation Date: March 2001; Title: Calorimetric Measurements in CDF: A New Algorithm to Improve The Energy Resolution of Hadronic Jets

Leonard Steven Christofek: Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Steven Errede; Graduation Date: April 2001; Title: Analysis of the Vector Boson Self Interaction and the Search for Anomalous Couplings at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV p-pbar Collisions

Stephen John Bailey: Institution: Harvard University; Advisor: John Huth; Graduation Date: April 2001; Title: A Study of B -> J/psi K^(*0) X Decays

Andrei Solodsky solodsky@physics.rockefeller.edu: Institution: The Rockefeller University, New York; Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos, Luc Demortier; Graduation Date: April 2001; Title: Observation of Diffractive J/Psi Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

Dana Partos dspartos@earthlink.net: Institution: Brandeis University, Waltham MA; Advisor: Jim Bensinger; Graduation Date: May 2001; Title: Measurement of the Sqrt(s) Dependence of Isolated Direct Photon Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Christopher S. Hill chill@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Davis; Advisor: Richard Lander; Graduation Date: September 2001; Title: Measurement of the cross-section ratio ttj/ttX in 106 pb-1 collected during Run1 of the Tevatron

Andreas Heiss heiss@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Thomas Muller; Graduation Date: September 2001; Title: Messung der Lebensdauer vollstandig rekonstruierter B Mesonen mit dem CDF Detektor (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/01-17, 2001)

Matthew S. Martin msmartin@fnal.gov: Institution: Jesus College Oxford; Graduation Date: December 2001; Title: Preliminary Studies Concerning Delta Gamma(B_s) Measurements in Proton Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.0 TeV

2002

Brock Tweedie: Institution: University of Rochester; Advisor: Kevin McFarland; Graduation Date: February 2002

Tianjie Gao tgao@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Advisor: Nigel Lockyer; Graduation Date: May 2002; Title: An Updated Measurement of sin(2beta) with Multiple Flavor Tags Using a Tag-combining Algorithm

Lucio Cerrito lucio@fnal.gov: Institution: University of London, London (U.K.); Advisor: S.J.Haywood and M. Lancaster; Graduation Date: May 2002; Title: Measurement of the Leptonic Angular Distribution in W-Boson Decay as a Function of the W Transverse-Momentum Using the CDF Detector at the Tevatron

Carter Hall chall@fnal.gov: Institution: Harvard University; Advisor: Melissa Franklin; Graduation Date: June 2002; Title: Measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section with conversions

Marina Brozovic brozovic@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University, North Carolina; Advisor: Alfred T. Goshaw; Graduation Date: August 2002; Title: Studies of the W/Z production associated with direct photons

Catalin Ciobanu catutza@fnal.gov: Institution: The Ohio State University; Advisor: Richard E. Hughes; Graduation Date: September 2002; Title: A Neural Networks Search for Single Top Quark Production in CDF Run I Data

Anthony Affolder affolder@hep.ucsb.edu: Institution: University of California, Berkeley, CA; Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: A Measurement of Bottom Quark-Antiquark Azimuthal Production Correlations in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV

John Strologas strolog@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Steven Errede; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: Measurement of the differential angular distribution of the W boson produced in association with jets in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV.

Alexander Brandl brandl@glueball.phys.unm.edu: Institution: University of New Mexico; Advisor: Sally Seidel; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: Comparison of Three-jet Events to Predictions from a Next-to-leading-order Calculation

Chadd Smith: Institution: The Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Bruce Barnett; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: Search for Gluino Pair Production Using Like-Sign Top Dilepton Events

Carlos Andres Sanchez: Institution: The Ohio State University; Advisor: Richard Hughes; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with Neural Networks

Arnold Pompos pompos@fnal.gov: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Advisor: Virgil Barnes, Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation Date: December 2002; Title: Search for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark in Dilepton Events Produced in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at \sqrt{s}= 1.8 TeV

2003

Patrik Schemitz schemitz@ekp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Michael Feindt; Graduation Date: February 2003; Title: Eine Hard- und Software-Umgebung fur Physik-Analysen bei CDF II (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/03-01, 2003)

Stephanie Menzemer menzemer@fnal.gov: Institution: IEKP Karlruhe University; Advisor: Michael Feindt; Graduation Date: February 2003; Title: Spurrekonstruktion im Silizium-Vertexdetektor des CDFII-Experiments

Hideaki Takano takanoh@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; Advisor: Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: May 2003; Title: Search for WW Production in the Lepton Jet Channel in 1.8-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Chunhui Chen cchen23@hep.upenn.edu: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Advisor: Joseph Kroll; Graduation Date: May 2003; Title: A Measurement of the Direct Charm Meson Production Cross Section at CDF II

Kenichi Hatakeyama hatake@fnal.gov: Institution: The Rockefeller University; Advisor: Konstantin Goulianos; Graduation Date: April 2003; Title: Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function of the Antiproton in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1800 and 630 GeV

Giulia Manca manca@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Advisor: Peter Renton, Young-Kee Kim; Graduation Date: July 2003; Title: MEASUREMENT OF THE RATIO R = SIGMA_W.BR(W->E NU)/SIGMA_Z.BR(Z->E E-) IN PROTON - ANTI-PROTON COLLISIONS AT S**(1/2) = 1.96 TEV

Christopher Neu neu@fnal.gov: Institution: Ohio State University; Advisor: Brian Winer; Graduation Date: July 2003; Title: A Search for the Higgs Boson in Proton - Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-Momentum Energy of 1.8 TeV

Hartmut Stadie stadie@fnal.gov: Institution: University Karlsruhe, Germany; Advisor: Thomas Muller; Graduation Date: July 2003; Title: Results on the Production and Detection of W Bosons with the Collider Detector at Fermilab in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV

Robyn Madrak madrak@fnal.gov: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.; Advisor: Melissa Franklin; Graduation Date: September 2003; Title: Measurement of the Lambda_B Lifetime in the Decay Mode Lambda_B->Jpsi Lambda

Amy Lynn Connolly: Institution: University of California, Berkeley; Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro; Graduation Date: September 2003; Title: A Search for Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the Di-tau Decay Mode in Proton-Antiproton Collision at 1.8 TeV

Kevin Patrick Lannon lannon@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Steven Errede, Kevin Pitts; Graduation Date: September 2003; Title: A Measurement of B Hadron Correlations in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV

Kai Yi yik@pha.jhu.edu: Institution: The Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Barry Blumenfeld, Bruce Barnett; Graduation Date: December 2003; Title: A Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime using Semileptonic Decays and Observation of the New State X(3872)

Yi Le yile@pha.jhu.edu: Institution: The Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Bruce Barnett; Graduation Date: December 2003; Title: Measurement of the Lambda_b -> Lambda_c pi Branching Ratio

Gregory Veramendi mendi@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Berkeley; Advisor: Young-kee Kim; Graduation Date: December 2003; Title: A Measurement of Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry of Electron-Positron Pairs

2004

Soushi Tsuno tsuno@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Fumihiko Ukegawa; Graduation Date: January 2004; Title: Tests of Enhanced Leading Order QCD in W Boson plus Jet Production in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Koji Ikado ikado@fnal.gov: Institution: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Advisor: Kuni Kondo; Graduation Date: March 2004; Title: Search for New Physics in Dielectron Events in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Heather Ray hray@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: Dante Amidei; Graduation Date: March 2004; Title: Measurement of the t-tbar production cross section in p-pbar collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV

Ivan Kresimir Furic ikfuric@mit.edu: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Christoph Paus; Graduation Date: March 2004; Title: Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions Br(Bs -> Ds pi)/Br(B -> D pi) at CDF-II

David J. Goldstein djg@physics.ucla.edu: Institution: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Advisor: David Saltzberg; Graduation Date: March 2004; Title: A Measurement of the Top Quark Cross-Section at Sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Dmitri Tsybychev tsybych@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Florida; Advisor: Darin Acosta, Jacobo Konigsberg; Graduation Date: March 2004; Title: Search for first-generation leptoquarks in the jets and missing transverse energy topology in proton-antiproton collisisons at center-of-mass energy 1.96~TeV

Alexei Varganov varganov@umich.edu: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: Dan Amidei; Graduation Date: April 2004; Title: The Production Cross Sections of the Weak Vector Bosons in p ̄p Collisions at √s=1.96 TeV and a Measurement of the W Boson Decay Width

Matthew Worcester mworcest@physics.ucla.edu: Institution: UCLA; Advisor: David Saltzberg; Graduation Date: June 2004; Title: Inclusive Search for Anomalous High-pT Like-Sign Lepton Pair Production at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Andreas Korn akorn@fnal.gov: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Christoph Paus; Graduation Date: June 2004; Title: Measurement of B-Hadron Masses at CDF Run II

Heather Kay Gerberich hkg@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University; Advisor: Ashutosh V. Kotwal; Graduation Date: July 2004; Title: Search for Excited or Exotic Electron Production Using the Dielectron Photon Signature at CDF in Run II

Daniel Ryan dryan@fnal.gov: Institution: Tufts University; Advisor: Krzysztof Sliwa; Graduation Date: August 2004; Title: Direct Searches for Scalar Leptoquarks at the Run II Tevatron

Michael Kirby kirby@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC; Advisor: Al Goshaw; Graduation Date: October 2004; Title: Measurement of W gamma Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at root-s = 1.96 TeV.

Konstantin Anikeev anikeev@fnal.gov: Institution: MIT; Advisor: Ch. Paus; Graduation Date: October 2004; Title: Measurement of the Lifetimes of B Meson Mass Eigenstates

Robert A. Napora napora@fnal.gov: Institution: The Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Barry Blumenfeld; Graduation Date: October 2004; Title: Measurement of BR(B to phi K)/BR(B to J/psi K) at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Mircea N. Coca cmircea@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester, NY; Advisor: Paul Tipton; Graduation Date: October 2004; Title:Measurement of the top pair-production cross section in the dilepton channel in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt (s)=1.96 TeV

Yanwen Liu Yanwen.Liu@fynu.ucl.ac.be: Institution: Geneva U.; Advisor: Allan Clark; Graduation Date: November 2004; Title: Measurement of the Cross Section for Production of Prompt Diphoton in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Trevor Vickey Trevor.Vickey@cern.ch: Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: S. Errede, T. Liss; Graduation Date: November 2004; Title: Measurement of W Boson Polarization in Top Quark Decay

Radu Marginean radu@mps.ohio-state.edu: Institution: The Ohio State University; Advisor: Richard Hughes; Expected Graduation Date: November 2004; Topic:Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross Section at CDF Using Neural Networks

Sarah Demers Konezny sarah_demers@post.harvard.edu: Institution: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Advisor: Kevin McFarland; Graduation Date: November 2004; Title: A Measurement of BR(top->tau neutrino quark)

Carsten Rott carott@fnal.gov: Institution: Purdue University; Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks from Gluino Decays in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96TeV

Muge Karagoz Unel karagozm@fnal.gov: Institution: northwestern univ., il, usa; Advisor: michael schmitt; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: Searches for New Physics Using High Mass Dimuons at the CDF II Experiment

Minsuk Kim mskim@fnal.gov: Institution: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea; Advisor: DongHee Kim; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: Search for Gauge-Mediated SUSY Breaking in Diphoton Events in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV

Tatjana Unverhau tatjana@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Glasgow; Advisor: Peter Bussey; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: A Measurement of the Lifetime of the Lambda_b Baryon with the CDF Detector at the Tevatron Run II

Eli Ben-Haim benhaim@lal.in2p3.fr: Institution: LPNHE, Paris 6 University; Advisor: Patrick Roudeau, Aurore Savoy-Navarro; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title:The b Quark Fragmentation Function, From LEP To TeVatron

Erik Brubaker brubakee@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Berkeley; Advisor: Young-Kee Kim; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: A Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark in Lepton Jets Events at CDF

Andrew Ivanov andrew@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester, NY; Advisor: Paul Tipton; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: Search for Anomalous Kinematics of Top Dilepton Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Jian Kang jiank@cdfrh0.grid.umich.edu: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: J. Chapman; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title:Measurement of W and Z Production Cross Sections in Muon Channel in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt\t(s) = 1.96 TeV

Henri Bachacou hbachacou@lbl.gov: Institution: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Advisor: Jim Siegrist; Graduation Date: December 2004; Title: A Measurement of the Production Cross Section of Top-Antitop Pairs in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV Using Secondary Vertex b-Tagging.

2005

Aidan Robson robson@fnal.gov: Institution: Oxford University, UK; Advisor: Peter Renton; Graduation Date: January 2005; Title: A Measurement of Z Boson Production and Rapidity Distribution in p-pbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96TeV

Naho Tanimoto tanimoto@fnal.gov: Institution: Okayama University, Okayama, Japan; Advisor: Itsuo Nakano, Reisaburo Tanaka, Al Goshaw; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Measurement of W gamma Production in the W to Muon Decay Channel in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt=1.96TeV

Koji Sato ksato@hepsg3.px.tsukuba.ac.jp: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Kohei Yorita kohei@fnal.gov: Institution: Waseda Univ. Tokyo, Japan; Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Dynamical Likelihood Method using the Lepton plus Jets Events in 1.96 Tev Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Hirokazu Kobayashi hirokazu@hepsg3.px.tsukuba.ac.jp: Institution: University of TSUKUBA; Advisor: Koji Takikawa; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Search for the Higgs Boson Using High-pT Isolated Like-Sign Dilepton Events in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Takashi Ogawa tqb@fnal.gov: Institution: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Search for Scalar Top Quark Pair-Production in Scenario with Violated R-parity in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Helen Hayward hayward@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk: Institution: Liverpool; Advisor: Beate Heinemann; Graduation Date: March 2005; Title: Measurement of Zgamma Production in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Andrea Bocci bocci@fnal.gov: Institution: The Rockefeller University; Advisor: Stefano Lami; Graduation Date: April 2005; Title: Search for Hadronic Resonances of W/Z in Photon Events at CDF

Shin-Shan Yu eikoyu@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Advisor: Nigel Lockyer; Graduation Date: May 2005; Title: First measurement of the ratio of branching fractions BR(Lamb to Lamc mu nu) to BR(Lamb to Lamc pi)

Zongru Wan zrwan@fnal.gov: Institution: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA; Advisor: John Conway; Graduation Date: May 2005; Title: A Search for New Physics with High Mass Tau Pairs in PPbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at CDF

Nathan Goldschmidt njg@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: David Gerdes; Graduation Date: May 2005; Title: Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons Produced in Top-Quark Decay at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Alexandre Pronko pronko@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Florida; Advisor: Andrey Korytov; Graduation Date: May 2005; Title: FRAGMENTATION OF QUARK AND GLUON JETS IN PROTON-ANTIPROTON COLLISIONS AT CENTER-OF-MASS ENERGY OF 1.8 TeV

Bernd Stelzer bernd@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Toronto; Advisor: Pierre Savard and William Trischuk; Graduation Date: May 2005; Title: Search for Electroweak Single Top Quark Production in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Alexandre Rakitine rakitin@mit.edu: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Christoph Paus; Graduation Date: June 2005; Topic: Measurement of the Dipion Mass Spectrum In the Decay X(3872) -> J/psi pi^+ pi^-

Thorsten Walter walter@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Thomas Muller; Graduation Date: June 2005; Title: Search for Electroweak Single Top Quark Production with the CDF Experiment in Proton Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV Center of Mass Energy

Martin Henneke hennecke@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Michael Feindt/ Wim de Boer; Graduation Date: June 2005; Title: Search for the Higgs-Boson with the CDF experiment at Tevatron (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/2005-5)

Jieun Kim jkim@fnal.gov: Institution: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea; Advisor: DongHee Kim; Graduation Date: June 2005; Title:Search for a New Charged Heavy Vector Boson Decaying to an electron-neutrino Pair in p anti-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Jonatan Piedra piedra@fnal.gov: Institution: Universidad de Cantabria, Spain; Advisor: Alberto Ruiz and Ivan Vila; Graduation Date: July 2005; Title: Determination of Delta m_d and absolute calibration of flavor taggers for the Delta m_s analysis, in fully reconstructed decays at the CDF experiment

Claudia Lecci lecci@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Michael Feindt; Graduation Date: July 2005; Title: A Neural Jet Charge Tagger for the Measurement of the B0s - B0sbar Oscillation Frequency at CDF (Karlsruhe Note IEKP-KA/2005-13)

Alberto Cruz alberto@phys.ufl.edu: Institution: University of Florida; Advisor: Rick Field; Graduation Date: July 2005; Title: Using Max/Min Transverse Regions to Study the Underlying Event in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.97 TeV

Satoru Uozumi satoru@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: July 2005; Title:Measurement of the B meson Lifetimes with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Salvatore Rappoccio rappoccio@gmail.com: Institution: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Advisor: Andrew Foland; Graduation Date: August 2005; Title: Measurement of the ttbar Production Cross Section in ppbar Collisisons at sqrt(S) = 1.96 TeV

Gavril A. Giurgiu ggiurgiu@fnal.gov: Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Advisor: Prof. Manfred Paulini; Graduation Date: September 2005; Title: B Flavor Tagging Calibration and Search for Bs Oscillations in Semileptonic Decays with the CDF Detector at Fermilab

Anant Gajjar gajjar@hep.ph.liv.ac.uk: Institution: Liverpool; Advisor: Tara Shears; Graduation Date: September 2005; Title: Measurement of the inclusive bbbar jet cross section at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Yoshio Ishizawa yoshio@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; Advisor: Fumihiko Ukegawa; Graduation Date: September 2005; Title: Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with the W boson in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Ricardo Eusebi eusebi@fnal.gov: Institution: University or Rochester, Rochester NY, USA; Advisor: Paul Tipton; Graduation Date: October 2005; Title: Search for Charged Higgs in ttbar Decay Products from proton-antiproton at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Oliver Stelzer-Chilton oliversc@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Toronto; Advisor: William Trischuk; Graduation Date: October 2005; Title: First Measurement of the W Boson Mass with CDF in Run 2

Joshua P. Tuttle tuttle@phy.duke.edu: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0305, USA; Advisor: Ashutosh Kotwal; Graduation Date: October 2005; Title:A Search for Long-Lived Doubly-Charged Higgs Boson Production in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using Run2 CDF

Jean-Francois Arguin jarguin@physics.utoronto.ca: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation Date: November 2005; Title: Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with In Situ Jet Energy Scale Calibration Using Hadronic W Boson Decays at CDF-II

Ulrich Kerzel kerzel@fnal.gov: Institution: Institut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Advisor: Michael Feindt; Graduation Date: November 2005; Title: CDF Grid computing and the decay X(3872) -> J/Psi pi pi- with J/Psi -> e e-

Andrew Kovalev andrew.kovalev@gmail.com: Institution: University of Pennsylvania; Advisor: H.H. Williams; Graduation Date: November 2005; Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDFII

Dustin McGivern dm@hep.ucl.ac.uk: Institution: University College London, UK.; Advisor: David Waters; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title: A Meaurement of the W W- production cross section in ppbar collisions at root(s)=1.96 TeV in the DiLepton channel and limits on anomalous WWZ/gamma couplings

Dominik Hirschbuehl hirsch@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de: Institution: IEKP Karlsruhe University; Advisor: Thomas Muller; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title: Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry and W Boson Helicity in Top-Antitop Quark Events with the CDF II Experiment

Silvia Amerio amerio@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Trento; Advisor: Ignazio Lazzizzera; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title:Study of ttbar production in tau jets channel at CDFII using neural networks

Vyacheslav Krutelyov slava77@fnal.gov: Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; Advisor: Teruki Kamon; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title:Search for Supersymmetry Using Rare Bs->mu mu- Decays at CDF Run II

Denys Usynin usynin@alumni.upenn.edu: Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; Advisor: Joseph Kroll; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title:Study of Charged Particle Species Produced in Association with B0, B-, and Bs Mesons

Chun Lin: Institution: Yale University; Advisor: Colin Gay, Michael Schmidt; Graduation Date: December 2005; Title:Search for Universal Extra Dimensions in the Multi-Lepton Channel at the Tevatron

2006

Masato Aoki masato@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Advisor: Shin-Hong Kim; Graduation Date: February 2006; Title:Measurement of the Bc meson Lifetime with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Alison Lister alister@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Geneva/ ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Advisor: Guenther Dissertori; Graduation Date: March 2006; Title:Measurement of b-quark jet Shapes at CDF

Tomohiro Yamashita tomohiro@fphy.hep.okayama-u.ac.jp: Institution: Okayama University; Advisor: Itsuo Nakano; Graduation Date: March 2006; Title:Measurment of J/psi meson and b-hadron production cross section at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

Ryo Tsuchiya ryo@fnal.gov: Institution: Waseda University; Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo; Graduation Date: March 2006; Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Dynamical Likelihood Method using the Dilepton Events

Andrew Hamilton ahamil@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Advisor: James Pinfold; Graduation Date: May 2006; Title:Exclusive Interaction in pp Collisions at 1.96TeV

Dongwook Jang dwjang@fnal.gov: Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Advisor: Amit Lath; Graduation Date: May 2006; Title:Search for MSSM Higgs decaying to tau pairs in ppbar collision at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV at CDF

Karen Gibson krg@fnal.gov: Institution: Carnegie Mellon University; Advisor: Manfred Paulini; Graduation Date: June 2006; Title:Measurement of the Relative Fragmentation Fractions of B-bar Hadrons

Kristian Hahn kristian@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Pennsylvania; Advisor: Nigel Lockyer; Graduation Date: August 2006; Title:Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to e-mu in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Bodhitha Jayatilaka boj@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Advisor: David Gerdes; Graduation Date: August 2006; Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Decay Channel at CDF II

Anadi Canepa canepa@fnal.gov: Institution: Purdue University, West Lafayette IN; Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation Date: August 2006; Title:Search for chargino and neutralino at Run II of the Tevatron collider

Nuno Leonardo leonardo@fnal.gov: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Christoph Paus; Graduation Date: September 2006; Title:Analysis of Bs flavor oscillations at CDF

Andrey Loginov loginov@fnal.gov: Institution: ITEP, Moscow; Advisor: H.J.Frisch(UC), A.A.Rostovtsev (ITEP); Graduation Date: September 2006; Title:Search for Anomalous Production of Events with a High Energy Lepton and Photon at the Tevatron

Mitchell Soderberg soderber@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: David Gerdes; Graduation Date: September 2006; Title:Measurement of the W bb-bar Cross-Section in 695 pb-1 of pp-bar Collisions at CDF II

Alon Attal attal@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Los Angeles; Advisor: Jay Hauser; Graduation Date: November 2006; Title:Search for R-Parity Violating Supersymmetry in the Multilepton Final State

Paola Squillacioti paolasq@fnal.gov: Institution: INFN, Pisa, Italy; Advisor: Maria Agnese Ciocci & Giovanni Punzi; Graduation Date: November 2006; Title:Measurement of the branching fraction ratio BR(B->DK)/BR(B->Dpi) with the CDF II detector

Stephane Tourneur tourneur@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie; Advisor: Aurore Savoy-Navarro; Graduation Date: November 2006; Title:Search for top pair production in the dilepton decay channel with tau lepton

Sebastian Carron carron@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University; Advisor: Mark Kruse; Graduation Date: November 2006; Title:Measurement of the tt, WW and Z->tautau production cross section at CDFII

Craig Group group@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Advisor: Richard D. Field; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title:MEASUREMENT OF THE INCLUSIVE JET CROSS SECTION USING THE MIDPOINT ALGORITHM IN RUN II AT THE COLLIDER DETECTOR AT FERMILAB (CDF)

Sasha Baroiant sasha.baroiant@gmail.com: Institution: University of California, Davis; Advisor: Richard Lander; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title:A Search for Doubly-Charged Higgs Bosons at the Tevatron

Adam Gibson agibson@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Berkeley, USA; Advisor: Young-Kee Kim; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with a Matrix Element Method

Diego Tonelli tonel@fnal.gov: Institution: Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore; Advisor: Giovanni Punzi; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title: First observation of the Bs->K K- decay mode, and measurement of the B0 and Bs mesons decay-rates into two-body charmless final states at CDF.

Stanley S Forrester sforrest@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Davis; Advisor: Maxwell Chertok; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title:Search for 3r Generation Vector Leptoquarks in the Di-Tau Di-Jet Channel in proton anti-proton collisions at square root sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

Yoshiaki Kusakabe yoshiaki@fnal.gov: Institution: Waseda, Japan; Advisor: Kunitaka Kondo; Graduation Date: December 2006; Title:Search for Higgs Boson Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV

2007

Shan-Huei Chuang schuang@fnal.gov: Institution: UW-Madison; Advisor: Mark C. Kruse; Graduation Date: January 2007; Title:First Search at CDF for the SM Higgs Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 2 TeV

Takashi Akimoto takimoto@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba; Advisor: Shin-hong Kim; Graduation Date: February 2007; Title:Search for Third Generation Vector Leptoquarks in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Simon Sabik sabik@physics.utoronto.ca: Institution: University of Toronto; Advisor: Pierre Savard; Graduation Date: February 2007; Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Channel using the Neutrino Weighting Algorithm

Xavier Portell portell@fnal.gov: Institution: IFAE (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain; Advisor: Mario Martinez; Graduation Date: March 2007; Title:Search for Gluino and Squark Production in Multi-Jets plus Missing Transverse Energy Final States at the Tevatron using the CDF Detector.

Enrique Palencia palencia@fnal.gov: Institution: Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC); Advisor: Teresa Rodrigo; Graduation Date: March 2007; Title:Measurememt of the t-tbar production cross section in p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s)=1.96 TeV using lepton jets events in the CDF detector at Fermilab

Olga Norniella norniell@fnal.gov: Institution: IFAE - Barcelona; Advisor: Mario Martinez; Graduation Date: March 2007; Title:Inclusive Jet Production Studies at the Tevatron using the CDF Detector

Brian Mohr mohr@fnal.gov: Institution: University of California, Los Angeles; Advisor: Jay Hauser; Graduation Date: April 2007; Title:A Precise Measurement of the Top Quark Mass

Vivek Tiwari vtiwari@cmu.edu: Institution: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA; Advisor: Manfred Paulini; Graduation Date: May 2007; Title:Measurement of the Bs anti-Bs Oscillation Frequency Using Semileptonic Decays

Sara-Madge Wynne smwynne@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Liverpool, UK; Advisor: Mike Houlden; Graduation Date: June 2007; Title:Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in 1.2 fb-1 of Run II High Mass Diphoton Data at CDF

Roman Lysak lysak@fnal.gov: Institution: Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia; Advisor: Jaroslav Antos; Graduation Date: June 2007; Title:Top quark mass measurement in dilepton channel

Jennifer Pursley jpursley@fnal.gov: Institution: The Johns Hopkins University; Advisor: Petar Maksimovic; Graduation Date: June 2007; Title:Discovery and Measurement of Excited b Hadrons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab

Michele Giunta giunta@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Siena; Advisor: Giorgio Bellettini; Graduation Date: June 2007; Title:Precision Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF

Corrinne Mills cmills@physics.harvard.edu: Institution: The University of California at Santa Barbara; Advisor: Joseph R. Incandela; Graduation Date: June 2007; Title:A Measurement of the Top Pair Production Cross-Section in the Dilepton Channel using Lepton plus Track Selection

Alberto BELLONI alberto.belloni@cern.ch: Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Advisor: Christoph PAUS; Graduation Date: July 2007; Title:Observation of Bs-antiBs Oscillations and the Development and Application of Same-Side-Kaon Tagging

Peter Wagner wagnp@fnal.gov: Institution: Texas A&M University; Advisor: David Toback; Graduation Date: August 2007; Title:Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Jonathan Efron efron@mps.ohio-state.edu: Institution: The Ohio State University, Columbus; Advisor: Brian Winer; Graduation Date: August 2007; Title:Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson in the ZH l l- bb Channel at CDF Run II

Viktor Veszpremi veszpv@cern.ch: Institution: Purdue University, West-Lafayette, IN; Advisor: Daniela Bortoletto; Graduation Date: August 2007; Title:Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center-of-Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV

Jeffrey Miles jmiles@alum.mit.edu: Institution: MIT; Advisor: Christoph Paus; Graduation Date: September 2007; Title:Observation of Bs Oscillations Using Partially Reconstructed Hadronic Bs Decays

Stanley T. Lai stan.lai@cern.ch: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Advisor: Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation Date: September 2007; Title:Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Produced in Association With a Top-AntiTop Quark Pair in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Jared Yamaoka yamaoka@fnal.gov: Institution: Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA; Advisor: Sunil Somalwar; Graduation Date: October 2007; Title:Measurement of the relative fraction of ttbar events produced via gluon-fusion in ppbar collision at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV at CDF.

Svenja Richter richter@fnal.gov: Institution: Karlsruhe U., EKP; Advisor: Michael Feindt, Wolfgang Wagner; Graduation Date: November 2007; Title:Search for Electroweak Single Top-Quark Production with the CDF II Experiment

Michael Milnik: Institution: Karlsruhe U., EKP; Advisor: Michael Feindt; Graduation Date: November 2007; Title:Measurement of the Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in B_s \to J/\psi \phi Decays

Christopher Marino cmarino@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Kevin Pitts; Graduation Date: December 2007; Title:Measurement of the CP Asymmetry in Semimuonic B Decays Produced in ppbar Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96

Zeynep Gunay Unalan gunay@fnal.gov: Institution: Michigan State University, MI, USA; Advisor: Kirsten Tollefson; Graduation Date: December 2007; Title:Measurement of the top quark's charge

Johannes Muelmenstaedt: Institution: University of California, Berkeley; Advisor: Marjorie Shapiro; Graduation Date: December 2007; Title:First observation of the decay Bs --> Ds K and measurement of Br(Bs --> Ds K)/Br(Bs --> Ds pi)

Michael Joseph Morello michael.morello@pi.infn.it: Institution: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy; Advisor: Giovanni Punzi; Graduation Date: December 2007; Title:Measurements of CP Asymmetries and Branching Fractions of Two-Body Charmless Decays of B0 and B0s Mesons

John Freeman jcfree@fnal.gov: Institution: UC Berkeley, California, USA; Advisor: Jim Siegrist; Graduation Date: December 2007; Title:A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in 1.96 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions Using a Novel Matrix Element Method

2008

Tuula Maki tmaki@fnal.gov: Institution: Helsinki Institute of Physics and Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland; Advisor: Risto Orava; Graduation Date: March 2008; Title:Top-Quark Mass Measurement

Tatsuya Masubuchi tatsuya@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Advisor: Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: March 2008; Title:Search for Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson in 1.96-TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions

Taichi Kubo taichi@fnal.gov: Institution: Tsukuba University; Advisor: Shinhong Kim; Graduation Date: March 2008; Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass by Dynamical Likelihood Method using the Lepton Jets Events

Cristobal Cuenca Almenar ccuenca@fnal.gov: Institution: U Valencia & IFIC (in association with UC Davis); Advisor: Victoria Castillo, John Conway, Juan Valls Ferrer; Graduation Date: April 2008; Title:Search for the neutral MSSM Higgs bosons in the ditau decay channels at CDF Run II

Vadim Khotilovich khotilovich@tamu.edu: Institution: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA; Advisor: Teruki Kamon, Alexei Safonov; Graduation Date: May 2008; Title:Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a tau Lepton and a b Quark in 1.96-TeV ppbar Collisions

Ulysses Grundler grundler@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Advisor: Tony Liss; Graduation Date: May 2008; Title:A Measurement of the t-tbar Production Cross Section in p-pbar Collisions at s**(1/2)=1.96 TeV using Soft Muon Tagging

Philippe Roy royp@hep.physics.mcgill.ca: Institution: McGill University; Advisor: Andreas Warburton; Graduation Date: May 2008; Title:Relative Transverse Momentum Distributions of Bottom Hadrons in 1.96 TeV ppbar Collisions

Jahred Adelman jahred@cdf.uchicago.edu: Institution: University of Chicago; Advisor: Melvyn Shochet; Graduation Date: May 2008; Title:Measurement of the Top Quark Mass at CDF using the Template Method in the Lepton+Jets Channel

Peter Dong dong@physics.ucla.edu: Institution: University of California, Los Angeles; Advisor: Rainer Wallny; Graduation Date: June 2008; Title:Measurement of Electroweak Single Top Quark Production in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at 1.96 TeV

Bo-Young Han byhan@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester; Advisor: Kevin McFarland; Graduation Date: June 2008; Title:Measurement of the W Boson Production Charge Asymmetry in ppbar Collisions

Shabnaz Pashapour shabnaz.pashapour@cern.ch: Institution: University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Advisor: Professor Pekka K. Sinervo; Graduation Date: June 2008; Title:First Measurement of sigma(gg -> ttbar)/sigma(ppbar -> ttbar)

Julian Glatzer jglatzer@physics.rutgers.edu: Institution: Rutgers University; Advisor: Sunil Somalwar; Graduation Date: October 2008; Title:Probing mSUGRA with a Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production using Trileptons

Alice Bridgeman abulenci@uiuc.edu: Institution: University of Illinois; Advisor: Tony Liss; Graduation Date: October 2008; Title:Measurement of the Top-Antitop Quark Pair Differential Cross Section with Respect to the Invariant Mass of the Pair in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at a Center of Mass Energy of 1.96 TeV

Jiyeon Han jyhan@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Rochester, NY, U.S.A; Advisor: Arie Bodek, Willis Sakumoto; Graduation Date: November 2008; Title:The differential Cross Section Distribution of Drell-Yan Dielectron Pairs in the Z Boson Mass Region

Chunlei Liu chl56@pitt.edu: Institution: University of Pittsburgh, PIttsburgh, PA, USA; Advisor: Joseph Boudreau; Graduation Date: December 2008; Title:Search for CP Violation in B0s to Jpsi Phi

Antonio Boveia boveia@fnal.gov: Institution: UC Santa Barbara; Advisor: David Stuart; Graduation Date: December 2008; Title:A Search for Resonant Z Pair Production

J. Clark Cully clarkcully@gmail.com: Institution: University of Michigan; Advisor: Dan Amidei; Graduation Date: December 2008; Title:Search for W'->tbbar in ppbar Collisions of Sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV

Dean Andrew Hidas dhidas@fnal.gov: Institution: Duke University, Durham, NC; Advisor: Mark Kruse; Graduation Date: December 2008; Title:Search for Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to W-Boson Pairs in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

2009

Sneha Malde malde@fnal.gov: Institution: University of Oxford; Advisor: Farrukh Azfar; Graduation Date: March 2009; Title:Simulation free measurement of the B lifetime using decays selected using displaced tracks

Carolina Deluca cdeluca@fnal.gov: Institution: IFAE - Barcelona; Advisor: Mario Martinez-Perez, Sebastian Grinstein; Graduation Date: June 2009; Title:Measurement of the Inclusive Isolated Prompt Photon Production Cross Section at the Tevatron using the CDF Detector

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