Andrew Ivanov

Andrew Ivanov
Assistant Professor
Address:	10 Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-1699
E-mail:	aivanov@phys.ksu.edu
Group Webpage
Ph.D. University of Rochester 2004
M.S. Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology 1998

Research Area

Experimental High Energy Particle Physics

Top Quark Physics
Searches for New Particles and Phenomena
Particle Detector Development

Now is very exciting time to work in High Energy Physics. The upcoming decade is anticipated to bring a revolutionary breakthrough in our understanding of the world at the smallest distances and the universe at the earliest moments of its creation.

Our group is using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC collider to analyze proton-proton collisions at the highest energy scale to-date. This is the energy scale where theoretical predictions indicate that the effects beyond the standard model of particle physics should appear. The fact, that the theory cannot specify the exact nature of new physics and leaves many options open, gives us, particle physicists, very interesting and exciting years ahead in unraveling the deepest secrets of nature.

Research Support

Department of Energy
National Science Foundation

Recent Selected Publications

S. Chatrchyan et al. [CMS collaboration], “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”, Phys. Lett. B716 (2012) 30.
S. Chatrchyan et al. [CMS Collaboration], "Search for pair produced fourth-generation up- type quarks in pp collisions at 7 TeV with a lepton in the final state", accepted to Phys. Lett. B (2012), arXiv:hep-ex/1209.0471
S. Chatrchyan et al. [CMS Collaboration], "Measurement of the tt production cross section in pp collisions at 7 TeV in lepton + jets events using b-quark jet identication", Phys. Rev. D 84, 092004 (2011).
T. Aaltonen et al. [CDF Collaboration], “Search for Very Light CP-Odd Higgs Boson in Top Quark Decays from pp ̄ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV ”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 031801 (2011).
T. Aaltonen et al. [CDF Collaboration], “Search for Heavy Bottom-like Quarks Decaying to an Electron or Muon and Jets at CDF”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 141803 (2011).