Yurii Maravin
Associate Professor
Address:	11 Cardwell Hall
Phone:	(785) 532-1639
E-mail:	maravin@phys.ksu.edu
Personal Webpage
Ph.D. Southern Methodist University, 2002

Research Area

Experimental High Energy Physics

I study the physics at the 10^-18 m scale of the quantum universe using D0 data from the highest energy collider, the Tevatron, in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago, IL.  My D0 work in 2009 resulted in 4 publications, 2 of which are already published, one submitted for publication, and the last one is in the final stages of submission. I also work on commissioning of the CMS experiment at the 7 TeV CERN LHC collider in Switzerland. This experiment has already started to take collision data and will likely to provide answers to many fundamental questions of physics such as: are there extra dimensions of space? What is the dark energy and what is the nature of the dark matter of the universe? What is the origin of mass?

I co-lead (with Dr. Halyo, Princeton U.) one of the 5 US CMS physics groups that helps young students and post-docs to prepare for upcoming CMS data analyses at LHC Physics Center at Fermilab. I also collaborate with Bharat Ratra and colleagues from CMU and Pittsburgh U. on several cosmology topics.

I am a PI of the DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator award grant I received in 2008. I am also co-PI in DOE grant GOPY531353 “Heavy quark and neutrino physics”, and I am active in following grants: NSF Grant GOPY530504 “Quarknet”, and NSF Grant GOPY000844 “Partnerships for Research and Education”. I also receive supplementary funding in excess of 50,000$ to support travel expenses and fund presence of stuff and graduate students at CERN.

Research Support

• Department of Energy
• National Science Foundation

Recent Selected Publications

• "Measurement of the WZ cross section and WWZ coupling at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV,’’ to be submitted to Phys. Lett. B (2010).  
• "Search for a resonance decaying into WZ boson pairs in ppbar collisions,’’ submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010).
• "Search for dark photons from supersymmetric hidden valleys,’’ Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 081802 (2009).
• "Measurement of the Zg®nng cross section and limits on anomalous ZZg and Zgg  couplings in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV,’’ Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201802 (2009).
• "Search for Technicolor with the CMS experiment,’’ CMS AN 2009/099.

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