Tim Bolton
Professor
Address:	43A Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-1664
E-mail:	bolton@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988
B.S. Stanford University, 1982

Research Area

Experimental High Energy Physics

Our group studies the physics at the 10^-18 m scale of the quantum universe. We collaborate with many groups throughout the world on the D0 experiment at the Fermilab 2 TeV Tevatron proton-antiproton collider near Chicago, on the CMS experiment at the 14 TeV CERN LHC collider in Switzerland, and on neutrino mixing experiments in the USA and Europe.

Our technical expertise encompasses silicon charged particle detectors, liquid scintillator calorimeters, and Monte Carlo simulation.

Research Support

• Department of Energy
• National Science Foundation
• KSU Targeted Excellence
• Fermilab

Recent Selected Publications

• Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s = 7 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105:0220202, 2010.

• Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons in the Dielectron and Diphoton Final States with 5.4 fb-1 of data from pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:241802, 2010.

• Measurement of Direct Photon Pair Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, Phys. Lett. B690:108-117, 2010.

• Transverse Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV, JHEP 1002:041, 2010.

• Combination of Tevatron Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the W+W- Decay Mode, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:061802, 2010.

• Performance of CMS Muon Reconstruction in Cosmic-Ray Events, JINST 5:T03022, 2010.

• Performance of the CMS Drift-Tube Local Trigger with Cosmic Rays, JINST 5:%03003, 2010.