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At University of Wisconsin:University of Wisconsin - Madison Physics Department 1150 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 |
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Production and validation contact, starting August 2009
Electroweak analyses with electrons
I have designed and maintain the software for the RCT detector controls system (DCS), aka slow control software, see CMS RCT DCS Twiki.
I also work on the implementation of the RCT Trigger Supervisor code, see CMS RCT TS Twiki.
General information on the CMS RCT main Twiki page.
I was the convenor of the CMS physics analysis group on forward physics in 2007-2008. Forward physics with CMS at the LHC covers a wide range of physics subjects which have in common that particles produced at small polar angles theta and hence large values of rapidity provide a defining characteristics. These subjects include very low-xBj QCD, underlying event and multiple interactions characteristics, gamma-mediated processes, absolute luminosity determination, shower development at the energy scale of primary cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere, diffraction in the presence of a hard scale and even MSSM Higgs discovery in central exclusive production.
CMS forward physics analysis group (PAG) homepage
CMS forward physics hypernews forum
CMS forward physics INDICO agenda pages
The work of the forward PAG depends crucially on the forward detector instrumentation around the CMS interaction point:
- CMS Castor calorimeter
- CMS Zero Degree detector ZDC
- TOTEM T1 and T2 tracking telescopes
- TOTEM Silicon detectors at 220 m
- Potentially FP420 detectors if approved as CMS project
FP420 aims at instrumenting the region around 420 m from the ATLAS and/or CMS interaction point with Silicon tracking and fast Cherenkov timing detectors. FP420 would add discovery physics with forward proton detection to the physics portfolio of ATLAS and/or CMS. FP420 was conceived as R&D project with ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM and LHC participation. Recently, the respective groups is ATLAS and CMS made requests to their collaborations for acknowledgement as official collaboration upgrade projects.
For general information, see FP420 R&D project homepage
The initial FP420 document of June 2005 on the basis of which FP420 became an R&D project acknowledged by the LHCC.
The FP420 R&D report of June 2008 provided to an CMS-internal refereeing body.
I was awarded a 3-year professorship at the University of Turin, Italy, under the program "Rientro dei cervelli" of the Italian Ministery for University and Research for a research proposal on central exclusive Higgs production. My profile on the cervelli web page.
Mixing in the D0 System: Results from Collider Experiments, M.Grothe, Mod.Phys.Lett.A 18 (2003) 1, hep-ex/0301011
The FP420 R&D project: Higgs and new physics with forward protons at the LHC, FP420 collab., M.G.Albrow et al., arXiv:0806.0302 [hep-ex], May 2008
Prospects for diffractive and forward physics at the LHC, M. Grothe, J. Mnich (CMS Editors), Document jointly written with TOTEM, CERN/LHCC 2006-039/G-124, December 2006
CMS Physics Technical Design Report -- Volume 2: Physics Performance, CMS collab., CERN/LHCC 2006-021, June 2006; Section 7.4: ``Diffraction and forward physics'' ; Section E.3: ``Triggering with forward detectors''
Architecture of the ATLAS High-Level Trigger selection software, M. Grothe on behalf of the ATLAS Trigger/DAQ High-Level Trigger group, Proceedings of CHEP03, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A518:537-541,2004
Limits on D0-D0bar Mixing and CP Violation from the Ratio of Lifetimes for Decays to K- pi+, K- K+, and pi- pi+, BaBar Collab., B.Aubert et al., Phys.Rev.Lett.91 (2003) 121801
The BaBar Detector, BaBar Collab., B.Aubert et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 479 (2002) 1; Chapter 7: Performance of the charged particle tracking systems
First-year Experience with the BABAR Silicon Vertex Tracker, M.Grothe on behalf of the BaBar SVT group, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A473 (2001) 7, Proc. of Vertex2000, Michigan USA, 2000
Measurement of the Diffractive Structure Function F_2^{D(4)} at HERA, ZEUS Collab., J.Breitweg et al., DESY 97-184, Europ.Phys.J. C1 (1998) 81
The Presampler for the Forward and Rear Calorimeter in the ZEUS Detector, ZEUS Presampler Group, A.Bamberger et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 382 (1996) 419
EDS 2009, Member of the organizing committee of the 13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (Blois workshop), CERN, Switzerland, June 2009
London workshop on Standard Model Discoveries with early LHC data, Convenor of the session on Diffraction and Forward Physics, University College London, UK, March 2009
ISMD 2008, Convenor of the working group on Interpolation Region at the upcoming 37th International Symposium on
Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2008), DESY, Hamburg, September 2008
DIS 2008, Convenor of the working group on Diffraction and Vector Mesons at the 16th workshop on Deep Inelastic
Scattering (DIS 2008), London, UK, April 2008
EDS 2007, Convenor of the session on ``Forward Physics at the Tevatron and the LHC of the 12th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering: Forward Physics and QCD (Blois workshop), DESY, Germany, May 2007
HERA-LHC workshop 2005, Convenor of a session on Level-1 trigger issues of forward detectors at the HERA-LHC workshop, January 2005
Research experience and interests
