Christopher Neu
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia
Virginia coordinates:
e-mail: chris.neu@virginia.edu
phone: (434) 243 8490
fax: (434) 924 4576
office: HEP 119
CERN coordinates:
e-mail: christopher.neu@cern.ch
phone: +41 (0)22 76 70491
office: Batiment 512 1-009
mobile: +41 (0)76 706 1884
Fermilab coordinates:
e-mail: neu@fnal.gov
phone: (630) 840 6310
fax: (630) 840 2968
office: CDF 170-H
Research interests:
CMS Experiment and the US CMS contingent
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
CERN
CDF Measurement of the W+b-jets cross section
CDF b-tagging - efficiency and false positives
Z --> bb Analysis in Run 2 at CDF
Search for the Higgs Boson - in WH events at CDF in Run 1 - technical description of
an optimized Higgs search technique, my PhD thesis, suitable for experts
Search for the Higgs Boson - a similar description
geared towards non-CDF experimental particle physicists
CDF Experiment - Higgs,
Top
QCD analysis groups
The Tevatron and its status
Fermilab
Signatures to look for at the LHC
Selected conferences and other public talks:
SESAPS09 "Status of the CDF Physics Program" - Atlanta, GA 14 November 2009.
Poster on W+b-jets analysis from Lepton-Photon 2009 18 August 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. It won a prize!.
CDF Collaboration Meeting 2008 "W/Z + b-jets: Status and Future Prospects" - Fermilab 17 June 2008.
HCP 2008 "Experimental studies of W/Z+jets, and W/Z+heavy flavor at Tevatron" - Galena, IL, USA, 27-30 May 2008.
Berkeley V+Jets Workshop "W+b-jets Cross Section Measurement at CDF" - LBNL, Berkeley, CA, 26-28 March 2008.
Moriond QCD 2008 "W/Z+Jets and W/Z+HF Production at the Tevatron" - La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy, 8-15 March 2008.
CDF Collaboration Meeting 2006 "CDF b-Tagging" - La Biodola, Elba, Italy, 3-8 June 2006.
Top 2006 "High pT b-Tagging at CDF: Measuring Efficiency and Understanding Mistags" - Coimbra, Portugal, 12-15 January 2006.
SUSY 03 "Search for the Higgs Boson at CDF" - Tucson, AZ, USA, 5-10 June 2003.
Workshop on Advanced Multivariate and Statistical Techniques "Root_Jetnet Interface" - FNAL, 31 May 2002.
APS April Meeting 2000 "Track Segment Finding with the CDFII Online Track Processor" - Long Beach, CA, 29 April - 2 May, 2000.
Password restricted:
CDF fast navigator - Higgs,
Top,
QCD analysis groups
CDF b-tagging
CDF shift ELog
Beam width measurement
L2 trigger upgrade
CDF notes
TopNtuple members for reference
CDF Top group MCs
CDF btag group MCs
TopNtuples for CDF Data
Analysis resources:
ROOT - a data analysis package
Madgraph - nice program for examining feynman diagrams for specific signatures
Root to JETNET package
Essentials:
Maddy's first few days
Chicago White Sox, their schedule, the standings in the AL Central and WSI for discussion
Chicago Bears, their schedule, the standings in the NFC North
The Fighting Illini, and Illini Board for discussion
Christopher Neu
Last modified: Thu Dec 3 04:31:28 CST 2009