Krane's Physics Page

Here's a list of the things I'm working on at the moment. Some of these following items are "sensitive", so you must have a password to view them.

• I am a Convenor of the QCD group at DØ. Most of my recent work involves this group, so you can find it at that location if you don't see it in the selection below.

  My current work involves a study of jet algorithm details ("search cones"), calorimeter performance, and optimization of trigger parameters to collect jet data. Some of the details are public and can also be found on the aforementioned QCD page.

• The DØ Experiment is collecting data this year, and for the next few. Our Control Room is a very busy place; you can see it (and my description of it) via the web. You need RealPlayer to see and hear the presentations.

  Two 5 minute presentations about searching for the Higgs Boson, for British high school students, with good resolution: Higgs 1, Higgs 2

  The following presentations are not "live" right now, but they were webcast live from DØ to a computing conference in Balimore on the dates listed. You will find several 30 minute long presentations to a supercomputing conference, with fair resolution: "DØ Live"

• locked I am a member of the Luminosity Monte Carlo Committee. We will determine the standards a MC generator must meet serve as the standard for DØ, and find that MC generator.

• locked Some time ago, I worked primarily on global tracking algorithms, focusing on the combination of axial and stereo information in the central fiber tracker. Here is my tracking page.

Talks on my Recent Work

Public talks are in bold font and are usually DØ analyses, not necessarily my personal analyses. The other talks are usually internal and locked, and are my personal contributions.

December 16
Developments with the cone algorithm in Run 2, at the DØ/CDF/Theory Jet Workshop.

November 6
locked QCD Group Status and Plans (.ppt)

November 5
locked Adding L2 to the QCD Triggers (.ppt)

October 7, 2002
locked Update on the fast MC for zero suppression studies (.ppt)

October 4, 2002
PUBLIC "Low-P_T Multijet Cross Sections at DØ" (.ppt), at the DØ/CDF/Theory Matrix Element and Monte Carlo Tuning Workshop, at Fermilab. (This analysis was performed by a DØ collaborator, Gena Obrant.)

October 1, 2002
locked Report on a fast MC for zero suppression studies (.ppt).

September 9, 2002
locked Performance of L2 Jet Trigger

August 29, 2002
PUBLIC Jet/MET meeting talk on lost jets. (.ppt) This internal talk is now public, with permission of Jet/MET and physics convenor.

Aug 26, 2002
locked Jet Algorithm Update

August 5, 2002
PUBLIC "Experimental QCD at DØ" (.ppt), invited 1-hour talk given at QCD02 in Beijing, China. I presented many analyses from the past 6 years or so.

June, 2002
PUBLIC "DØ's Recent Results and Experiences with the K_T and Cone Jet Algorithms" (.ppt), a 20 minute talk given at CALOR02 in Pasadena, CA. I presented several analyses from the past few years.

These items are all PUBLIC (and a little dated!):

• "Life as a High Energy Physicist", a general public talk I gave at the University of South Dakota (my Alma Mater) during the December 2001 Lawrence Brothers Symposium. E.O. Lawrence built the first syncrotrons, of which Fermilab is one. Like me, Lawrence went to USD for his undergraduate work.

• My work for the Neutrino Factory Study: NuFact

• My experiences with Disk-to-Tape Backups

• General service work

• Older work, dating from my grad student days

• A collection of approved plots from my thesis work

My links to useful pages:

• SLAC Spires preprint database

• The Neutrino Oscillation Industry

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