Graduate Students

• Eberly, Brandon

Former Students

• Vrana, Thomas
• Thompson, Richard

Professor

Ph.D., 1978, Carnegie–Mellon University

Research: JLAB/CLEO, Neutrinos

Steven A. Dytman is an undergraduate advisor.

The study of the fundamental properties of neutrinos is one of the frontiers of high energy physics today. Since they are so elusive, experiments come very slowly. However, each one comes packed with information. My interest is in the next generation of high quality measurements which will done at and near Fermilab. To measure neutrino mixing, a good measurement of the ν energy is critical. With the coarse–grained detectors in use today, simulation of detector response is key. I am involved with 2 efforts to improve this determination. The MINERνA experiment is under construction and will start taking data is roughly 2008. It will measure basic hadron production cross sections with a fine–grained detector and much better statistics than the past. I will then use these new data to greatly improve the simulation packages. The second experiment will measure the third neutrino mixing angle Θ13 at the Braidwood reactor complex in Illinois with much improved accuracy. This experiment will both complete the first generation of experiments and introduce the second generation where CP violation properties will hopefully be measured. If the experiment is approved, we hope to build the veto detector package.

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Selected Publications

• "Baryon Resonance Extraction from πN Data using a Unitary Multichannel Model," T.P. Vrana, S.A. Dytman, and T.-S. H. Lee, Phys. Repts. 328, 181 (2000).
• "A Review of Light Baryon Properties," S.A. Dytman, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Baryons, Nucl. Phys. A755, 49 (2005).
• "Observation of h_c^1P1 State of Charmonium," J.L. Rosner et al. (CLEO Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 95: 102003 (2005).
• "Coupled Channel Effects in D Decay," S.A. Dytman, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy AIP Conf. Proc. 814, 649 (2005).
• "Proceedings, NSTAR2002, Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, S.A. Dytman, E.S. Swanson, eds., World Scientific (2003).