The physics department has been largely expanding over the past few years, and focuses on conducting the most current and innovative research and outreach in the industry. Below are some research publications conducted by the department that focus on a variety of related topics.

Manuscripts from 2008

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Observation of orbitally excited B-s mesons, T. Aaltonen, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, et al.

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Model-independent and quasi-model-independent search for new physics at CDF, T. Aaltonen, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, et al.

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Search for Supersymmetry in p (p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature for Chargino-Neutralino Production, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of the Single-Top-Quark Production Cross Section at CDF, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for the Higgs Boson Produced in Association with Z -> l(+) l(-) in p (p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for the Flavor-Changing Neutral-Current Decay t -> Zq in pp Collisions at s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Direct measurement of the W boson width in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for new heavy particles decaying to Z(0)Z(0)-> eeee in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons with lepton-flavor-violating decays involving tau leptons, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for pair production of scalar top quarks decaying to a tau lepton and a b quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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First measurement of W boson production in association with a single charm quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) Decays with 2 fb(-1) of p(p)over-bar Collisions, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for the Higgs boson in events with missing transverse energy and b quark jets produced in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Observation of the decay B-c(+/-) -> J/psi pi(+/-) and measurement of the B-c(+/-) mass, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of ratios of fragmentation fractions for bottom hadrons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for heavy toplike quarks using lepton plus jets events in 1.96 TeV p(p)over-bar collisions, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Two-particle momentum correlations in jets produced in p(p)over-barcollisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Strong evidence for ZZ production in pp collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for chargino-neutralino production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV with high-p(T) leptons, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Observation of exclusive dijet production at the Fermilab Tevatron (p)over-bar-p collider, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Limits on the production of narrow t(t)over-bar resonances in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Evidence for D-0-(D)over-bar(0) mixing using the CDF II detector, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in Z/gamma*(-> e(+)e(-))+jets production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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First observation of the decay B-s(0)-> Ds-Ds+ and measurement of its branching ratio, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Cross-section-constrained top-quark mass measurement from dilepton events at the tevatron, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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First measurement of the fraction of top-quark pair production through gluon-gluon fusion, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top-Quark Production in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of b-jet shapes in inclusive jet production in pp collisions at s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay to photons at CDF II using photon timing, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron p(p)over-bar collider using a cone-based jet algorithm, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Search for Large Extra Dimensions in Final States Containing One Photon or Jet and Large Missing Transverse Energy Produced in pp Collisions at s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Measurement of the cross section for W-boson production in association with jets in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, T. Aaltonen, J. Adelman, T. Akimoto, et al.

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Design, performance, and calibration of the CMS hadron-outer calorimeter, S. Abdullin, V. Abramov, B. Acharya, et al.

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Design, performance, and calibration of CMS forward calorimeter wedges, S. Abdullin, V. Abramov, B. Acharya, et al.

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Design, performance, and calibration of CMS hadron-barrel calorimeter wedges, S. Abdullin, V. Abramov, B. Acharya, et al.

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Hadronic resonance production in d plus Au collisions at s(NN)=200 GeV measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Spin alignment measurements of the K*(0)(892) and phi(1020) vector mesons in heavy ion collisions at root S-NN=200 GeV, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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rho(0) photoproduction in ultraperipheral relativistic heavy ion collisions at root s(NN)=200 GeV, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Forward Neutral-Pion Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries in p plus p Collisions at s=200 GeV, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Enhanced strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions compared to p+p at root s(NN)=200 GeV, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from root s(NN)=200 GeVAu+Au collisions, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet production in (p)over-right-arrow + (p)over-right-arrow collisions at root s=200 GeV, B. I. Abelev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, et al.

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Cross section measurements of high-p(T) dilepton final-state processes using a global fitting method, A. Abulencia, J. Adelman, T. Affolder, et al.

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VERITAS discovery of > 200 GeV gamma-ray emission from the intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object W Comae, V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, M. Beilicke, et al.

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Veritas observations of the gamma-ray binary LS I+61 303, V. A. Acciari, M. Beilicke, G. Blaylock, et al.

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Observation of gamma-ray emission from the galaxy M87 above 250 GeV with VERITAS, V. A. Acciari, M. Beilicke, G. Blaylock, et al.

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Study of the solar anisotropy of cosmic ray primaries of about 200 GeV energy with the L3+C muon detector, P. Achard, O. Adriani, M. Aguilar-Benitez, et al.

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Patagonian glacier response during the late glacial-holocene transition, R. P. Ackert, R. A. Becker, B. S. Singer, et al.

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Efficiency of finding muon track trigger primitives in CMS cathode strip chambers, D. Acosta, A. Adam, V. Andreev, et al.

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Observation of J/psi -> 3 gamma, G. S. Adams, M. Anderson, J. P. Cummings, et al.

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Absolute measurement of hadronic branching fractions of the D-s(+) meson, J. P. Alexander, K. Berkelman, D. G. Cassel, et al.

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Design and performance of the silicon sensors for the CMS barrel pixel detector, Y. Allkofer, C. Amsler, D. Bortoletto, et al.

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Electrical and Thermal Interface Conductance of Carbon Nanotubes Grown under Direct Current Bias Voltage, P. B. Amama, C. Lan, B. A. Cola, et al.

Cl-36 in a soil in the hyperarid Atacama Desert, R. Amundson, S. Ewing, C. Lewis, et al.

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Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC-Last call for predictions, N. Armesto, N. Borghini, S. Jeon, et al.

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Measurement of exclusive D meson decays to eta and eta' final states and SU(3) amplitude analysis, M. Artuso, S. Blusk, S. Khalil, et al.

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Determination of the D-0 -> K+pi(-) relative strong phase using quantum-correlated measurements in e(+)e(-)-> D-0(D)over-bar(0) at CLEO, D. M. Asner, K. W. Edwards, P. Naik, et al.

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Observation of chi(bJ)(1P, 2P) decays to light hadrons, D. M. Asner, K. W. Edwards, J. Reed, et al.

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First observation of the decay D-s(+) -> p(n)over-bar, S. B. Athar, R. Patel, J. Yelton, et al.

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Tracking and vertexing with a thin CMOS pixel beam telescope, M. Battaglia, D. Bisello, G. Bolla, et al.

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Observation of chi(cJ) Radiative Decays to Light Vector Mesons, J. V. Bennett, R. E. Mitchell, M. R. Shepherd, et al.

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Semiclassical theory of diffusive-ballistic crossover and the persistent spin helix, B. A. Bernevig and J. P. Hu

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Inclusive radiative J/psi decays, D. Besson, T. K. Pedlar, D. Cronin-Hennessy, et al.

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Dalitz plot analysis of the D+-> K-pi(+)pi(+) decay, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, M. Dubrovin, et al.

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Absolute branching fractions of Cabibbo-suppressed D -> K(K)over-bar decays, G. Bonvicini, D. Cinabro, M. Dubrovin, et al.

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Relativistic spin precession in the double pulsar, R. P. Breton, V. M. Kaspi, M. Kramer, et al.

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Inclusive chi(bJ)(nP) decays to (DX)-X-0, R. A. Briere, T. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, et al.

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TeV J2032+4130: a not-so-dark accelerator?, Y. M. Butt, J. A. Combi, J. Drake, et al.

Ca-41 production in the solar system, M. W. Caffee, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, et al.

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Avoiding spurious breaks in binned luminosity functions, M. Cara and M. L. Lister

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MOJAVE: Monitoring of jets in AGN with VLBA experiments. IV. The parent luminosity function of radio-loud blazars, M. Cara and M. L. Lister

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Search for pulsar wind nebula associations with unidentified TeV gamma-ray sources, C. Chang, A. Konopelko, and W. Cui

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Spectroscopic Signatures of Novel Oxygen-Defect Complexes in Stoichiometrically Controlled CdSe, G. Chen, J. S. Bhosale, I. Miotkowski, et al.

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Phase coherence and superfluid-insulator transition in a disordered Bose-Einstein condensate, Y. P. Chen, J. Hitchcock, D. Dries, et al.

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Higgs decays and brane gravi-vectors, T. E. Clark, B. Y. Liu, S. T. Love, et al.

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Colliders and brane vector phenomenology, T. E. Clark, S. T. Love, C. Xiong, et al.

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Study of the decays D-0 -> pi(-)e(+)nu(e), D-0 -> K(-)e(+)nu(e), D+ -> pi(0)e(+)nu(e), and D+ -> (K)over-bar(0)e(+)nu(e), D. Cronin-Hennessy, K. Y. Gao, D. T. Gong, et al.

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Quantum transport in randomly diluted quantum percolation clusters in two dimensions, E. Cuansing and H. Nakanishi

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Study of the semileptonic charm decays D-0 ->pi(-)e(+)nu e, D+->pi(0)e(+)nu e, D-0 -> K(-)e(+)nu e, and D+->(K)over-bar(0)e(+)nu e, S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli, K. K. Seth, et al.

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Precision Measurement of the Mass of the h(c)(P-1(1)) State of Charmonium, S. Dobbs, Z. Metreveli, K. K. Seth, et al.

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The VSOP 5 GHz active galactic nucleus survey. V. Imaging results for the remaining 140 sources, R. Dodson, E. B. Fomalont, K. Wiik, et al.

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Two-photon widths of the chi(cJ) states of charmonium, K. M. Ecklund, W. Love, V. Savinov, et al.

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Measurement of the absolute branching fraction of D-s(+)-> tau(+)nu(tau) decay, K. M. Ecklund, W. Love, V. Savinov, et al.

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Precision measurement of B(D+->mu(+)nu) and the pseudoscalar decay constant f(D)+, B. I. Eisenstein, I. Karliner, S. Mehrabyan, et al.

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An effective model of magnetoelectricity in multiferroics RMn2O5, C. Fang and J. P. Hu

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Theory of electron nematic order in LaFeAsO, C. Fang, H. Yao, W. F. Tsai, et al.

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Multiwavelength observations of Markarian 421 in 2001 March: An unprecedented view on the X-ray/TeV correlated variability, G. Fossati, J. H. Buckley, I. H. Bond, et al.

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Classical thermodynamics of gravitational collapse, Z. Gecse and S. Khlebnikov

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Absence of certain exchange driven instabilities of an electron gas at high densities, G. F. Giuliani and G. Vignale

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First results from VERITAS, D. Hanna, V. A. Acciari, R. Amini, et al.

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First observation of exclusive chi(cJ) decays to two charged and two neutral hadrons, Q. He, J. Insler, H. Muramatsu, et al.

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Observation of Upsilon(2S)->eta Upsilon(1S) and Search for Related Transitions, Q. He, J. Insler, H. Muramatsu, et al.

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Comparison of D -> K-S(0)pi and D -> K-L(0)pi decay rates, Q. He, J. Insler, H. Muramatsu, et al.

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The complex exposure history of the Jiddat al Harasis 073 L-chondrite shower, L. Huber, E. Gnos, B. Hofmann, et al.

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Microscopic origin of magnetoelectric coupling in noncollinear multiferroics, J. P. Hu

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Scattering of single spikes, R. Ishizeki, M. Kruczenski, M. Spradlin, et al.

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New open string solutions in AdS(5), R. Ishizeki, M. Kruczenski, and A. Tirziu

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Localization-delocalization transition in a two-dimensional quantum percolation model, M. F. Islam and H. Nakanishi