Dr. Trevor Vickey
My research with the ATLAS experiment at CERN focuses on one of the most significant problems in physics today, measuring the properties of the new 125 GeV particle to determine if it is indeed the elusive Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. If this new boson is the light or heavy CP-even Higgs from the Higgs sector of the minimal version of the supersymmetric theories, then it is possible for multiple neutral and charged Higgs bosons to be discovered at the ATLAS experiment. To be sure, the LHC era is revolutionizing particle physics and expanding our fundamental understanding of Nature.
Areas of Interest:
Higgs boson properties
BSM Higgs boson searches
Searches for new physics in tau lepton final-states (graviton, third-generation leptoquarks, Z’, SUSY)
Top quark properties
Tau lepton identification
Silicon detectors
Appointments:
Reader at the
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Alma mater:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD, 2004)
Curriculum vitae:
List of Publications:
Contact:
Trevor.Vickey@cern.ch
Advisees:
Graduate Students:
Guillermo Hamity (Sheffield)
Theo Zorbas (Sheffield)
Teaching:
Fall 2016, Fall 2015: Physics-101 and Physics-250 (Sheffield; Special Relativity)
Spring 2016: Physics-102 (Sheffield; Quantum Mechanics)
Fall 2014, Spring 2014: Physics-1015 (Witwatersrand; mechanics for engineers)
Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010: Physics-1014 (Witwatersrand; calculus-based physics for engineers)
Spring 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010: No Teaching
Research on the ATLAS Experiment, CERN
Recent Selected Publications:
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Search for a CP-odd Higgs boson decaying to Zh in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Lett. B 744, 163-183 (2015). [arXiv]
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector,” JHEP 04, 117 (2015). [arXiv] (50+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” JHEP 11, 056 (2014). [arXiv] (100+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in di-boson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” Phys. Lett. B 726, 88-119 (2013). [arXiv] (500+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Search for the neutral Higgs bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” JHEP 02, 095 (2013). [arXiv] (50+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the H to τ+τ- decay mode in √s=7 TeV pp collisions with ATLAS,” JHEP 09, 070 (2012). [arXiv] (100+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” Phys. Lett. B 716, 1-29 (2012). [arXiv] (1000+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Rev. D 86, 032003 (2012). [arXiv] (100+ citations)
S. Dittmaier et al., “Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 2. Differential Distributions,” ISBN 978–92–9083–371–0 (2012). [arXiv] (500+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Measurement of the Z to τ+τ- Cross Section with the ATLAS Detector,” Phys. Rev. D 84, 112006 (2011). [arXiv] (50+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to τ+τ- pairs in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector," Phys. Lett. B. 705, 174-192 (2011). [arXiv] (100+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Limits on the production of the Standard Model Higgs Boson in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Eur. Phys. J. C. 71, 1728 (2011). [arXiv] (50+ citations)
S. Dittmaier et al., “Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 1. Inclusive Observables,” ISBN 978-92-9083-358-1 (2011). [arXiv] (1000+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Performance of the ATLAS Detector using First Collision Data,” JHEP 1009 056 (2010). [Journal Server] (50+ citations)
G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment---Detector, Trigger and Physics,” ISBN 978-92-9083-321-5 (2009). [arXiv] (1000+ citations)
