Todd Adams

Professor
Department of Physics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4350

Office: 515 Keen
Phone Number: (850) 644-7159
Fax Number: (850) 644-6735
Email: tadams@hep.fsu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:30-2:30pm
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I do research in particle physics, also known as high energy physics. The goal is to understand the most basic particles and forces in nature. I work with the FSU High Energy Physics Group on the CMS Experiment at CERN and the D0 Experiment at Fermilab. My focus is on searches for new physics in underexplored parts of the data sets. On CMS, I work on the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), study possible calorimeter upgrades for 2023, and a search for diphoton resonances in triphoton events. A former graduate student, Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, and I worked on a search for heavy, stable, charged particles (HSCPs) that was published in JHEP, in PLB, and again in JHEP. This result was highlighted as Fermilab's Frontier Result of the Week on July 12, 2013. On D0, I have performed a search for a neutral, long-lived particle decaying to two muons that was included in Fermilab's Result of the Week on March 2, 2006 and published in PRL My former student, Haryo Sumowidagdo, and I have also studied top decays involving a tau lepton using the D0 detector. This work has contributed to several papers: top cross section and mass in dileptons (Phys. Lett. B), top cross section and charged Higgs interpretations (Phys. Rev. D), and search for charged Higgs in top quark decays (Phys. Lett. B). This work was also highlighted as Fermilab's Result of the Week on October 23, 2008.

Particle physics in the News

FSU HEP group in the news
National Georgraphic - a nice article on the LHC.
Other stories on the web

Teaching/Coursework

Blackboard - Blackboard website where my courses are maintained.
PHY2054 College Physics B - my current course on Blackboard.
Past courses - Particle and Nuclear Physics, Introduction to Astronomy, General Physics A and B.
Old course web sites
Science
Interesting Science Websites - a collection of websites with information about science
CMS - the experiment I work on at CERN
D0 Experiment - the experiment I work on at Fermilab
NuTeV Experiment - the experiment I worked on as a post-doc
BNL E852 Home Page - my thesis experiment
Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermilab UEC - Fermilab Users Executive Committee (member 2009-2012, Chair 2010-2011)
CERN - the European physics laboratory in Switzerland
Florida State High Energy Physics - the research group I work with at FSU
Kansas State High Energy Physics - the group I worked with as a post-doc
Notre Dame High Energy Physics - the group I worked with as a graduate student
INSPIRE - HEP Preprint Database.
SLAC Spires - old HEP Preprint Database.
Particle Data Group - home page of the PDG.
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - a future telescope-based experiment to search for evidence of dark energy
American Physical Society
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Institute of Physics
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Challenger Learning Center in Tallahassee - local IMAX/planetarium/space education center.
Tallahassee Scientific Society - organization supporting science in Tallahassee, FL.
Of Particular Significance - news and insight related to particle physics by Prof. Matt Strassler.
Public Presentation: Angels & Demons: The Science Revealed - May 28, 2009, 7pm, video available
CERN Spring Break program (past)
CMS Related Links
CMS - starting point for CMS Collaborators.
US CMS - the organization of U.S. institutions working on CMS
LHC Physics Center (LPC) - the Fermilab home for U.S.-based work on CMS
CMS Exotica Group - public home of analyses searching for exotica.
CMS Generators Group - TWiki about CMS generators.
D0 Related Links
D0 at Work - starting point for D0 Collaborators.
New Phenomena physics group - searches for new particles and phenomena.
Top physics group - analyses related to the top quark.
Monte Carlo Request Coordination - the MC team that I led.
Monte Carlo webpages - simulation-related pages.
Monte Carlo production at D0 - MC production/farms.
L1Cal Trigger Upgrade - Run 2b upgrade of L1Cal trigger.
FSU Related Information
FSU Main Page - main website for Florida State University
FSU Faculty Senate - main website for Florida State University Faculty Senate
FSU Board of Trustees - main website for Florida State University Board of Trustees
Personal Information
How to reach me - All kinds of addresses.
CV - my CV from the FSU database
Current Work - information on my current research - including CMS, D0, neutrinos, phenomenology, and talks
Professional History - a brief history of my education and scientific work
Personal bio - a little info about me.
Emersonian Fraternity - some information about my fraternity at Hope College.
Something to live by - a plaque with this on it was given to me.
Can You See What I See? - an essay I wrote several years ago.
News and Other Information
Tallahassee Democrat - news from the Florida Big Bend area.
USA Today - national on line newspaper with stories updated hourly
Columbus Dispatch - news from central Ohio
Entertainment
Pinochle - the Hope College ACL pinochle help sheet and house rules.
Find The Spam - An entertaining webpage.
Camera Pages - a listing of pages which give an updating camera shot. It's amazing what some people will use technology for.
M*A*S*H - M*A*S*H archives
Doonesbury - one of my favorite comic strips
Other Information
Alta Vista - a pretty good search engine.
Sports Information - List of some of my favorite sports pages.
People - Some people's WWW pages which might be interesting.
Places - Pages related to places important to me.
Business - Pages of businesses I use on the web.
Universities - General and personalized list of university home pages.
National Marfan Foundation - organization promoting concerns on Marfan Syndrome.
Selected Publications
``Search for Long-lived Charged Particles in proton-proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV'', CMS Collaboration, PRD94 (2016) 112004. - arXiv:1609.0838 [hep-ex]
``Searches for Long-lived Charged Particles in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 and 8 TeV'', CMS Collaboration, JHEP 07 (2013) 122. - arXiv:1305.0491 [hep-ex]
``Search for Heavy Long-lived Charged Particles in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV'', CMS Collaboration, Physics Letters B 713, 408 (2012). - arXiv:1205.0272 [hep-ex]
``Heavy Stable Charged Particles Searches at the LHC'', Jie Chen and Todd Adams, IJMPA 26 3315 (2011).
``Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV'', CMS Collaboration, JHEP 1103 24 (2011).
``Searching for High Speed Long-lived Charged Massive Particles at the LHC'', Jie Chen and Todd Adams, European Physics Journal C67 335 (2010).
``QCD Precision Measurements and Structure Function Extraction at a High Statistics, High Energy Neutrino Scattering Experiment: NuSOnG,'' T. Adams et al. [NuSOnG Collaboration], International Journal of Modern Physics A 25, 909 (2010).
``Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Top Quark Decays'', V.M. Abazov et al., Physics Letters B 682, 278 (2009).
Terascale Physics Opportunities at a High Statistics, High Energy Neutrino Scattering Experiment: NuSOnG,'' T. Adams et al. [NuSOnG Collaboration]. International Journal of Modern Physics A 24, 671 (2009).
``Combination of ttbar cross section measurements and constraints on the mass of the top quark and its decays into charged Higgs bosons'', V.M. Abazov et al., Physical Review D 80, 071102(R) (2009).
``Measurement of the ttbar production cross section and top quark mass extraction using dilepton events in ppbar collisions'', V.M. Abazov et al., Physics Letters B 679, 177 (2009).
``Searches for Long-lived Particles at the Tevatron Collider'', T. Adams, Modern Physics Letters A 23, 371-385 (2008)
``Design and Implementation of the New D0 Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger'', M. Abolins, et al. Nucl. Instrum. and Methods, A 584/1, 75-97 (2007)
``Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Two Muons in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV,'' V.M. Abazov et al., Physical Review Letters 97, 161802 (2006) (Copyright 2006 The American Physical Society)
``Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering,'' G.P. Zeller et al., Physical Review Letters 88, 091802 (2002) (Copyright 2002 The American Physical Society)
``Observation of an Anomalous Number of Dimuon Events in a High Energy Neutrino Beam,'' T. Adams et al., Physical Review Letters 87, 041801 (2001) (Copyright 2001 The American Physical Society)
``Evidence for Diffractive Charm Production in nu_mu Fe and anti-nu_mu Fe Scattering at the Tevatron,'' T. Adams et al., Physical Review D 61, 092001 (2000) (Copyright 2000 The American Physical Society)

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