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Alexander, Jim
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- Professor, Physics (PHYS), College of Arts and Sciences
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Research
research overview
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Elementary Particle Physics
Physics beyond the Standard Model
CMS: the Compact Muon Solenoid
Instrumentation for detection of elementary particles.
Large Hadron Collider
International Linear Collider
principal investigator on
- OPTIMIZE CMS MONTE CARLO SOFTWARE awarded by DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 2009 - 2013
- PARTICLE PHYSICS AT THE ENERGY AND INTENSITY FRONTIERS awarded by DIRECTORATE FOR ENGINEERING NSF 2010 - 2013
- U.S. CMS SOFTWARE AND COMPUTING awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2006 - 2011
- U.S. CMS SOFTWARE AND COMPUTING SUBSYSTEM FOR 2012 awarded by DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 2012
co-principal investigator on
- CESR CONVERSION awarded by DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 2008 - 2011
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Improved measurements of D meson semileptonic decays to π and K mesons. Physical Review D. 80. 2009
- The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. Journal of Instrumentation. 3. 2008
- Absolute branching fractions of Cabibbo-suppressed D→KK̅ decays. Physical Review D. 77. 2008
- Absolute Measurement of Hadronic Branching Fractions of the Ds+ Meson. Physical Review Letters. 100. 2008
- Comparison of D→KS0π and D→KL0π Decay Rates. Physical Review Letters. 100. 2008
- Measurement of absolute hadronic branching fractions of D mesons and e+e-→DD̅ cross sections at the ψ(3770). Physical Review D. 76. 2007
- Measurement of the Decay Constant fDs+ Using Ds+→l+ν. Physical Review Letters. 99. 2007
- CMS Physics Technical Design Report, Volume II: Physics Performance. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 34:995-1579. 2007
- Dielectron Widths of the Υ(1S,2S,3S) Resonances. Physical Review Letters. 96. 2006
- Measurement of Absolute Hadronic Branching Fractions of D Mesons and e+e-→DD̅ Cross Sections at Ec.m.=3773 MeV. Physical Review Letters. 95. 2005
- Status of the CLEO III silicon tracker. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 511:11-15. 2003
- The CLEO III silicon vertex detector. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 501:32-38. 2003
- Determination of the B̅ →D*lν̅ decay width and |Vcb|. Physical Review D. 67. 2003
- Measurement of particle accelerations in fully developed turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 496:121-160. 2002
- Observation of B̅ 0→D0π0 and B̅ 0→D*0π0. Physical Review Letters. 88. 2002
- Design and initial performance of the CLEO III silicon tracker. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 473:17-25. 2001
- A Search for B ---> tau nu . Physical Review Letters. 86:2950-2954. 2001
- A silicon strip detector system for high resolution particle tracking in turbulence. Review of Scientific Instruments. 72. 2001
- Study of Charmless Hadronic B Meson Decays to Pseudoscalar-Vector Final States. Physical Review Letters. 85:2881-2885. 2000
- Measurement of Charge Asymmetries in Charmless Hadronic B Meson Decays. Physical Review Letters. 85:525-529. 2000
- Observation of B → K±π0 and B → K0π0 and Evidence for B → π+π− . Physical Review Letters. 85:515-519. 2000
- Second-Generation B Factories at the ϒ(4S). Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A - Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 453:32-36. 2000
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article
- Fluid particle accelerations in fully developed turbulence. Nature. 409:1017-1019. 2001
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book
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conference paper
- X-ray Monitor Based on Coded-aperture Imaging for KEKB Upgrade and ILC Damping Ring. Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference. 2008
- Plans for Utilizing the Cornell Electron Storage Ring as a Test Accelerator for ILC Damping Ring Research and Development. Proceedings of 2007 Particle Accelerator Conference. 42-44. 2007
- Measuring Mass and Cross Section Parameters at a Focus Point Region. Proceedings of 2005 International Linear Collider Workshop. 2005
- Testing Cosmology at the ILC. Proceedings of 2005 International Linear Collider Workshop. 2005
- Rare decays of bottom, charm, and strange quarks. Charm, beauty and CP. Proceedings, 1st International workshop on frontier science. 179-185. 2002
- Prospects for leptonic B decays in Upsilon(4S) experiments with very large data samples. B physics and CP violation. Proceedings of International Conference on B Physics and CP Violation (BCP 4). 118-119. 2001
Teaching
teaching activities
- PHYS-2214: Physics III: Oscillations, Waves, and Quantum Physics - Spring 2013
- PHYS-4400: Informal Advanced Laboratory - Spring 2013
- PHYS-4410: Advanced Experimental Physics - Spring 2013
- PHYS-6500: Informal Graduate Laboratory - Spring 2013
- PHYS-6510: Advanced Experimental Physics - Spring 2013
- PHYS-1116: Physics I: Mechanics and Special Relativity - Fall 2012
- PHYS-1118: Introduction to Research in Particle Physics - Spring 2012
- PHYS-1116: Physics I: Mechanics and Special Relativity - Fall 2011
Service
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Chicago 1984
- M.S., University of Chicago 1979
- B.A., Carleton College 1976