James W. Rohlf
Ph.D. Physics “Investigations of Hadron Jets” (1980) Caltech thesis published in Nucl. Phys. B
Committee: G. C. Fox (advisor), C. Barnes, R. P. Feynman, R. Gomez
M.S. Physics (1975) U. California, Los Angeles
B.A. Physics and B.S. Mathematics (1973) U. Minnesota
Employment: Professor of Physics, Boston University (1988-present)
complete history at pdf
Famous publications:
Observation of jets pdf, Discovery of the Upsilon(4S) pdf, Exclusive decays of B mesons pdf, Discovery of W boson pdf, Discovery of Z boson pdf, spin of the W pdf, discovery of b-quark oscillations pdf, search for quark substructure pdf, search for top quark pdf, search for supersymmetry pdf, discovery of lambda-b baryon pdf
Recent Publications:
Searching for SM Higgs Produced via Vector Boson Fusion pdf, CMS Note 2006/092 to be published in EPJ (2006)
Performance of Silicon Photomultipliers With the CMS HCAL Front-End Electronics pdf, submitted to Nucl. Inst. Meth.(2006)
Design and Performance of CMS Hadron Calorimeter Barrel Wedges pdf, CERN CMS Note, to be submitted to EPJ (2006)
Design and Performance of CMS Hadron Calorimeter Forward Wedges pdf, CERN CMS Note 2006/044, to be submitted to EPJ (2006)
Energy Response and Longitudinal Shower Profiles Measured in CMS HCAL and Comparison With Geant4 pdf, CERN CMS Note, to be submitted to EPJ (2006)
CMS Physics Technical Design Report Vol. 2 pdf, CERN/LHCC 2006-002 (2006)
CMS Physics Technical Design Report Vol. 1 pdf, CERN/LHCC 2006-001 (2006)
Measurement of Missing Transverse Energy with the CMS Detector at the LHC pdf, CERN CMS Note 2006/035 (2006), EPJ in press
Measurement of Jets with the CMS Detector at the LHC pdf, CERN CMS Note 2006/036 (2006), EPJ in press
The CMS High Level Trigger pdf, hep-ex/0512077 (2006)
Conceptual Design of an Improved CMS RPC Muon Trigger Using the Hadron Outer Scintillators pdf, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A545, 97 (2005)
Physics with Jets at the LHC pdf, Acta Phys. Polon. B36, 469 (2005)
Textbook: Modern Physics from Alpha to Z0, Wiley (1994) contents
Current Research: 100% Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)
past projects: Fermilab E260, Cornell CLEO, CERN UA1, SSC L*
Current funding:
DOE equipment no. 533000-DOE ($897k), DOE operations no. DE-FG02-91ER40676 ($125k), NSF equipment no. 533000-NSF ($1,756k), NSF operations no. 1000 G GB697 ($142k), NSF operations no. 1000 G FE289 ($217k)
Group:
Arno Heister (postdoc), design and maintenance of the CMS Jet software (C++) and software support for HCAL electronics
Dragoslav Lazic (senior research scientist, 100% at CERN) test beam and magnet test coordination
Adriaan Heering (engineer, 100% at CERN), maintenance and operation of electronics
Work closely with the senior engineers at the Boston University Electronics Design Facility (Eric Hazen and Shouxiang Wu)
Current software:
Coordination of the Jets and Missing Energy Physics group for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) link
Current hardware:
Data concentrator electronics for CMS (with E. Hazen and S. X. Wu) link
Trigger electronics for CMS (with E. Hazen and S. X. Wu) link
LHC upgrade, new SiPM photodetector (with A. Heering) link
Recent Talks (International Conferences):
Status of the LHC Detectors, pdf Particle Physics at the Verge of Discovery, Aspen, CO, Feb. 15, 2006
Physics with Jets at the LHC, pdf XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sonoma, CA July 29, 2004
CMS Physics reach at High and Super-High Luminosities pdf, IV International Symposium on LHC Physics, May 2, 2003
Super LHC: The Experimental Program, pdf International Workshop on Future Hadron Colliders, Oct. 17, 2003
Misc. Invited talks:
The Quest for 10-20 Meters, pdf Colloquium at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia, Dec. 3, 2003
The Wind Farm: Economics, Politics, Environment, and Physics, pdf Cornell Club of Cape Cod, Oct. 6, 2004
Great Explorers, The "Big Bang," Exploding Stars, and Other Fun Stuff pdf, Bridgeview School, Oct. 14, 2005
Misc. Recent CMS Talks (see http://agenda.cern.ch for more):
Calibration with Physics Events link, Anatalya Turkey, March 30, 2006
Status of the HO/RPC Trigger pdf, CERN, March 14, 2006
Status of HCAL Software for the MTCC link, CERN, Feb. 1, 2006
Physics Technical Design Report Vol. 1: HCAL/JetMET pdf, CERN, Dec. 8, 2005