Dr. Shahriar Abachi

 

   o Ph.D Physics, UCLA 03/85 – M.S. Physics, UCLA 03/78

   o Scientific Referee: Status awarded by the “American Physical Society,” 1986 – 1994

   o Scientific Referee: Research Corporation, 2002

 

Overview of personal work

Research: 10/80 – Present

 

UCLA; Hadronization studies (Babar) 10/02 – Present Phenomenology of hadron production; Space-Time Area Law model for meson hadronization.

 

Principal author of one refereed publication plus several collective Babar papers.

 

Caltech; CMS & LIGO 01/02 – 07/02 & 06/01 – 08/01

 

Development of a pattern recognition algorithm in C++ for πo rejection for CMS eγ project.

Contribution to LIGO software (mostly on Unix systems).

 

Fermilab; Do Collaboration 05/88 – 09/94

 

Top quark search and discovery.

Treatments of muon tracks in the whole detector.

Algorithms for isolated and fake leptons.

Top quark mass limit based on Bayesian probability analysis with (for the first time) dependencies in all decay channels.

Principal author of one conference paper plus many collective papers.

 

Argonne National Lab; SSC project 11/87 – 05/88

 

Simulations for a proposed SSC Calorimeter.

Final analysis of HRS data and publication of a review article (W/M. Derrick).

 

HRS Collaboration; 15 GeV e+e− annihilation at SLAC 02/85 – 11/87

 

First observation of scalar and tensor mesons in this field.

Observation and yield calculation of several other particles and their relevance to models.

Data analysis software development.

Official calculation of integrated luminosity and maintenance of its hardware & electronics.

Principal author of several refereed publications plus many collective papers.

 

LBNL; 2.1 GeV/nucleon heavy ion collisions 10/80 – - 01/85

 

Detector design & simulation.

Introduction of new data analysis procedures and charge identification method.

Techniques for combining upperlimits.

Techniques for accounting for noise effects in pulse height distributions and simulations.

Observation of the first p candidate below threshold at above energies.

Principal author of one refereed publication plus several collective papers.

 

Presentations: Many talks given in seminars and physics institutions since 1984.

 

Publications: Over 150 papers in refereed physics journals since 1984.

 

Teaching: 01/96 – Present

Calculus based Physics, Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Analytical Mechanics, Graduate Mathematical Physics,
Solid State Physics, Physical Chemistry, Astronomy, Electricity & Magnetism, History of Science, Finite Math, Statistics.