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  • 1986 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the study of weak decays of K mesons, particularly measurements of CP violating parameters and form factors, and for measurements of hadronic states produced in the decay of the psi meson and detailed studies of the weak decays of charmed particles

Overview

D. G. Hitlin is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has primarily contributed to the field of Physics and Astronomy through extensive research in nuclear and high energy physics. Their scholarly output spans over 104 publications, focusing on various subfields including nuclear and high energy physics, mechanics of materials, radiation, biomedical engineering, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The research topics covered in their work include particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, particle detector development and performance, muon and positron interactions and applications, quantum chromodynamics and particle interactions, neutrino physics research, high-energy particle collisions research, and dark matter and cosmic phenomena.

Hitlin has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Several recent papers exemplify the types of research conducted:

  • "Light meson spectroscopy from Dalitz plot analyses of ηc decays to η'K+K−, η'π+π−, and ηπ+π− produced in two-photon interactions", 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of B±K±Xc¯", 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Search for a Dark Leptophilic Scalar in e+e Collisions", 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Study of the process e+eπ+ππ0 using initial state radiation with BABAR", 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • "Resonances in e+e annihilation near 2.2 GeV", 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Frequent collaborators in Hitlin's research network include:

  • B. Echenard
  • F. C. Porter
  • S. Middleton
  • V. Poireau
  • V. Tisserand

In recognition of their contributions to physics, Hitlin was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986. The award citation notes their work on the study of weak decays of K mesons, measurements of CP-violating parameters and form factors, studies of hadronic states produced in the decay of the psi meson, and investigations of weak decays of charmed particles.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a broad structure in the pi(+)pi(-)J/psi mass spectrum around 4.26 GeV/c(2)

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Measurement of an excess of B̄→D(*) τ-ν̄τ decays and implications for charged Higgs bosons

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;V. Tisserand;E. Grauges

  • Study of the B- → J/ΨK -π+π- decay and measurement of the B - → X(3872)K- branching fraction

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Searches for Lepton Flavor Violation in the Decays tau(+/-) -> e(+/-)gamma and tau(+/-) -> mu(+/-)gamma

    B. Aubert;Y. Karyotakis;J. P. Lees;V. Poireau

  • Observation of a Narrow Meson State Decaying to Ds+π0 at a Mass of 2.32 GeV/c2

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;J. M. Gaillard

  • Evidence for an excess of B̄→D( *)τ -ν ̄τ decays

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;V. Tisserand;J. Garra Tico

  • Search for lepton flavor violation in the decay τ±→ e±γ

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Search for a dark photon in e(+)e(-) collisions at BABAR.

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;V. Tisserand;E. Grauges

  • Study of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries and flavor oscillations in neutral B decays at the Υ(4S)

    B. Aubert;D. Boutigny;J. M. Gaillard;A. Hicheur

  • Measurement of the gamma gamma* --> pi0 transition form factor

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;E. Prencipe;V. Tisserand

  • Search for T and CP violation in B0 - anti-B0 mixing with inclusive dilepon events

    Bernard Aubert;S. Yellin;G. Simi;S. Trincaz-Duvoid

  • Measurements of branching fractions, rate asymmetries, and angular distributions in the rare decays B→Kℓ^+ℓ^- and B→K^*ℓ^+ℓ^-

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;M. Bona;D. Boutigny

  • Search for invisible decays of a dark photon produced in e+e- collisions at BaBar

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;V. Tisserand;E. Grauges

  • Precise measurement of the e+e-→π+π-(γ) cross section with the initial-state radiation method at BABAR

    B. Aubert;Y. Karyotakis;J. P. Lees;V. Poireau

  • Evidence of a broad structure at an invariant mass of 4.32GeV/c2 in the reaction e+e-→π+π-ψ(2S) measured at BABAR

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;M. Bona;D. Boutigny

  • Study of e+e-→pp̄ using initial state radiation with BABAR

    B. Aubert;R. Barate;D. Boutigny;F. Couderc

  • Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier

    J.L. Hewett;H. Weerts;R. Brock;J.N. Butler

  • Search for B→K(*)νν¯ and invisible quarkonium decays

    J. P. Lees;V. Poireau;V. Tisserand;E. Grauges

  • Evidence for X(3872)→ψ(2S)γ in B±→X(3872) K± Decays and a Study of B→cc̄γK

    B. Aubert;M. Bona;Y. Karyotakis;J. P. Lees

  • B, D and K decays

    G. Buchalla;T.K. Komatsubara;F. Muheim;L. Silvestrini

Frequent Co-Authors

F. C. Porter
F. C. Porter California Institute of Technology
W. H. Toki
W. H. Toki Colorado State University
A. Seiden
A. Seiden University of California, Santa Cruz
C. Hearty
C. Hearty University of British Columbia
J. D. Richman
J. D. Richman University of California, Santa Barbara
A. Roodman
A. Roodman Stanford University
R. Waldi
R. Waldi University of Rostock
J. M. Roney
J. M. Roney University of Victoria
B. N. Ratcliff
B. N. Ratcliff Stanford University
Corrado Angelini
Corrado Angelini University of Padua

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