Mitchell Wayne

Professor and Department Chair
Elementary Particle Physics

Research Interests
Research with the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron studies the results of proton-antiproton collisions at the world’s highest energies. Physics topics of interest to Prof. Wayne’s group include searches for physics beyond the “standard model”. One example is the search for evidence of large extra dimensions at D0. Other analyses include searches for the Higgs boson, signs of supersymmetry, and various measurements of fundamental parameters of the standard model. There is a strong R&D effort in particle detector technology, in particular the use of scintillating fibers for charged particle tracking. A detector based on this technique is now in operation in the D0 experiment. More recent R&D is focused towards detector development for the Next Linear Collider.

Selected Publications:

“Subjet Multiplicity of gluon and quark jets reconstructed using the kT algorithm in collisions,” V.M. Abazov et al., Notre Dame (L. Coney, M. Hildreth, A. Kharchilava, E. Popkov, R. Ruchti, J. Warchol, M. Wayne) – D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D65 , 052008, (2002).

“Direct Measurement of the Top Quark Mass,” S. Abachi et al., Notre Dame (N. Biswas, R. Ruchti, J. Warchol, M. Wayne)-D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1197-1202 (1997).

“Performance of a Large Scale Scintillating Fiber Tracker Using VLPC Readout,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 43, 1146-1152 (1996).

“Observation of the Top Quark,” S. Abachi et al., Notre Dame (N. Biswas, R. Ruchti, J. Warchol, M. Wayne)-D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2632-2637 (1995).

“Performance of Multiclad Scintillating and Clear Waveguide Fibers Read Out with Visible Light Photon Counters,” B. Baumbaugh et al., Nucl. Inst. Meth. A345, 271 (1994).

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