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, on the future electron-positron International Linear Collider, and on neutrino mixing experiments in Europe and Asia.

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

We are also active in several outreach projects, including Quarknet and the KSU Center for the Understanding of Origins.

Research Support

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

Recent Selected Publications

• Search for pair production of scalar bottom quarks in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97:171806, 2006.

• Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from WW --> e+ e-, WW ---> e+- mu-+, and WW --> mu+ mu- events from p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Rev. D 74:057 101, 2006.

• Search for W-prime boson production in the top quark decay channel, Phys. Lett. B 641:423-431, 2006.

• Search for scalar leptoquarks in the acoplanar jet topology in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Lett. B 640:230-237, 2006.

• Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z+jet final state in p anti­p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV using the D0 detector, Phys. Rev. D 74:0 11104,2006.

• Search for particles decaying into a Z boson and a photon in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Lett. B 64 1:415-422, 2006.

• Search for resonant second generation slepton production at the Tevatron, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97:1 11801, 2006.

• Search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying to tau pairs in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97: 121802, 2006.

• Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry via the LL anti-E couplings lambda(121), lambda(122) or lambda(133) in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV, Phys. Lett. B 638:441-449, 2006.

• Search for excited muons in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96- TeV, Phys. Rev. D 73:1 11102, 2006.

• Search for squarks and gluinos in events with jets and missing transverse energy in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV. Phys. Lett. B 638: 119-127,2006

• Search for the rare decay B0(s)---> phi mu+ mu- with the D0 detector, Phys. Rev. D 74:03 1107, 2006.

• First direct two-sided bound on the B0(s) oscillation frequency, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97:02 1802, 2006.

• Measurement of B(t ---> Wb)/B(t ---> Wq) at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Lett. B 639:6 16-622, 2006.

• Search for pair production of second generation scalar leptoquarks in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1 .96-TeV, Phys. Lett. B 636: 183-190, 2006.