What I Do

I am a Research Associate in the Physics Department at The Ohio State University, where I work in the CMS High Energy Physics Group with Professors Stan Durkin and T. Y. Ling. We are currently at a very active stage in our construction projects on the CMS Experiment for the LHC accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Our work involves the design, production, testing and maintenance of the muon detector electronics and data readout system for the Cathode Strip Chambers (CSCs) in the Endcap Muon system (EMu). When the CMS detector construction is complete in 2008 we expect our muon detection chambers to see the decay products of the elusive Higgs boson and find evidence for Supersymmetry.

Here are some links about CERN, why the LHC accelerator was built and what we hope to discover in the CMS detector. Here is a nice Flash video that shows how different types of particles are detected in CMS.

In 2003 I was the EMU Beam Test Coordinator. Our goal was to prove the performance of the CSC readout system electronics under realistic "LHC-like" conditions provided in May-June 2003. Early test preparations were done at UCLA before the actual test took place in the fixed target beam of the CERN SPS accelerator.

Due to the lack of a large particle accelerator in Columbus, Ohio, I did my High Energy Physics thesis research with the Exotic and Rare Phenomena Group at the ZEUS Experiment, which was located in the HERA accelerator at the DESY lab, in Hamburg, Germany. OSU's primary focus at ZEUS was the search for `Physics Beyond the Standard Model.' We looked for evidence of new particles and interactions that are not predicted by the standard theory.

My dissertation subject was The Search for Contact Interactions in Deep Inelastic Scattering at ZEUS

Some of my earlier work was published in the Future Physics at HERA proceedings of the Beyond the Standard Model working group: Sensitivity of the ZEUS Experiment to Contact Interactions at High Integrated Luminosities (61kB, gzipped post-script). I also contributed to our investigation of the possible `Lepto-Quark' signal in 1996, which (unfortunately) appears to have been a statistical fluctuation.



Latest Update 10/22/07.
[Contact Me?] gilmore@mps.no_.-more-._spam.ohio-state.edu