Eckhard von Toerne Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics Department, Kansas State University Office:                   Cardwell Hall, room 11  Office hours:         Tuesday 11-12, Wednesday 3:30-4:30  Phone:                    (785) 532-1644  Fax:                        (785) 532-6806  Mailing Address:  Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall                                 Manhattan, KS 66506-2601  E-mail:                   evt@phys.ksu.edu

Prof. von Toerne works in the KSU High Energy Physics group. He is a member of the D0 and CMS collaborations and participates in detector R&D for the International Linear Collider. I am currently on a leave of absence from KSU. You can reach me at the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics at Bonn University, Germany.

Research Interests

Silicon Detector Development

Searches for new phenomena at hadron colliders

Linear Collider studies 

Awards

2004 Kovalevskaja Prize

1998 Feodor-Lynen Fellowship

Teaching and Physics Outreach

Phys931: Electrodynamics 2 (Spring05)

Phys831: Electrodynamics 1 (Fall04)

Phys694: Particle Physics (Spring04)

Phys623: Oscillations, Waves, Relativity (Fall03)

How to run Mathematica

Kansas State Quarknet Center

Syllabus for General Physics 1 Recitation

Links
My Departmental Web Page
Where to find Kansas State University and Cardwell Hall

Driving Directions

D0 B physics agenda
My Old CLEO Homepage
LEO English-German dictionary
Google Search Engine
Spires Preprint Database
Chestnut Lane Farm

• "Measurement of the Lifetime Difference in the B0(S) System", V.M. Abazov, et al., [D0 Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 171801 (2005)
• "Neutrino Mass Limit from Galaxy Cluster Number Density Evolution", T. Kahniashvili, E. von Toerne, N.A. Arhipova and B. Ratra, Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 125009. [astro-ph/0503328]
• "Measurement of the Lambda_b Lifetime in the Decay Lambda_b -> J/Psi Lambda with the D0 Detector",   V.M. Abazov, .., E. von Toerne,  et al. [D0 Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 102001 (2005).  [hep-ex/0410054]
• "Measurement of the Ratio of B+ and B0 Meson Lifetimes",   V.M. Abazov, .., E. von Toerne,  et al. [D0 Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 042001 (2005) [hep-ex/0410052]
• "Recent B-Physics Results from CLEO", E. von Toerne, 'Secrets of the B Meson', SSI 2002 Topical Conference, Stanford, CA, Aug. 2002 [hep-ex/0301016]
• "Measurement of BR(B– -->D0pi–) and BR(B-bar0-->D+pi–) and isospin analysis of  B-bar -->Dpi decays", with S. Ahmed et al. (CLEO), Phys. Rev. D 66, 031101(R) (2002)
• "Observation of B0b -> D(*)0 pi0", with T.E. Coan et al. (CLEO), Phys.Rev.Lett.88:062001 (2002)
• "The Power Supply System of the CLEO Silicon Detector", E. von Toerne et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A481, 538 (2002)
• "Rare and Hadronic B Decays", E. von Toerne for the CLEO Collaboration, Conference Proceedings hep2001/085, Nov 2001.
• "Design and Initial Performance of the CLEO-III Silicon Tracker", E. von Toerne et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A473, 17 (2001)
•  "Search for Higgs Bosons in e+e- collisions at 183 GeV", with G. Abbiendi et al. (OPAL), Eur.Phys.J.C7, 407 (1999)
• "Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in e+e- Collisions at Sqrt(S)=161 -172 GeV",
  with K. Ackerstaff et al. (OPAL), Eur.Phys.J.C1, 425 (1998)
• "A First Measurement of the Lambda Anti-Lambda and Lambda Lambda Spin Compositions in Hadronic Z0 Decays" with G. Alexander et al. (OPAL), Phys.Lett.B384, 377 (1996)

Talks (some large PDF files do not display properly, downloading and viewing them locally helps)

Heavy Quark Physics with Silicon Detectors at Collider Experiments	Colloquium, Kansas State U.	Manhattan, KS, April 2005
Calorimeter-Assisted Tracking and Reconstruction of Long-Lived Particles with the SiD	2005 International Linear Collider Workshop	Stanford (CA), March 2005
What is the Universe really made of?	Colloquium, Benedictine College	Benedictine College, Kansas Oct04
Infrastructure for Analyses at Fermilab and D0SAR sites	Invited Talk, D0SAR workshop	Manhattan, Sept 04
Reconstruction of long-lived Particles with the SD	Linear Collider ALCPG 2004	Victoria, CA July 04
CMS at Kansas State	DOE review	Manhattan, July 04
B Reconstruction and Spectroscopy at D0	Invited Talk, Beauty 2003 (with Vivek Jain)	Pittsburgh, Oct 03
KSU Readout Electronics	DOE EPSCoR review	Manhattan, Feb 03
Status of the CLEO Silicon Detector	Invited Talk, Vertex 2002, Proceedings	Kileauhea, Nov. 02
Recent Results from CLEO	Invited Talk, 30th SSI-Topical Conference, Proceedings	Stanford, Aug. 02
New Results from CLEO	Colloquium, Karlsruhe University	Karlsruhe, Germany,  May 02
Recent CLEO Results on Rare and Hadronic B Decays	Colloquium, Several Locations	Misc., Feb/Mar 02
Searches for new Phenomena at Hadron Colliders	Seminar, Northeastern University	Boston (MA), Mar 02
Rare and Hadronic B decays with CLEO	Seminar, Pittsburgh University	Pittsburgh (PA), Nov 01
Heavy Quark Physics with CLEO	Colloquium, Florida Institute of Technology	Melbourne (FA), Aug 01
Rare and Hadronic B Decays	Contributed Talk, EPS 2001	Budapest, Hungary,  Jul 01
The CLEO-III Silicon Detector	Seminar, University of Hawaii	Honolulu (HI), May 01
R Measurements at tau/c Energies	Contributed Talk, Tau/Charm Workshop	Ithaca (NY), May 01
Radiative J/Psi decays with CLEO-c	Contributed Talk, Tau/Charm Workshop	Ithaca (NY), May 01
The CLEO-III Silicon Detector	Invited Talk, Vertex 2000	Glen Arbor (MI), Sep 00
Hadronic B Decays	Invited Talk, XXXV Moriond	Les Arcs, France,  Mar 00
Bose-Einstein and Spin Correlations with OPAL	Contributed Talk, DPF 96	Minneapolis, Sep 96