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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work on searches for new particles and leadership of the CDF experiment

Overview

D. Toback is a researcher affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States, specializing in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The primary topics of their research include:

  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Superconducting and THz Device Technology
  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Advancements in PLL and VCO Technologies
  • Superconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Physical Review D
  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Toback include:

  • "Constraints on dark photons and axionlike particles from the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment", 2020, Physical Review D
  • "G4CMP: Condensed matter physics simulation using the Geant4 toolkit", 2023, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • "G4CMP: Condensed matter physics simulation using the GΕΑΝΤ4 toolkit", 2024, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • "The level-1 trigger for the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB", 2022, Journal of Instrumentation

Toback frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • B. Loer
  • R. Bunker
  • E. Figueroa-Feliciano
  • E. Azadbakht
  • Y.-Y. Chang

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015, with a citation noting pioneering work on searches for new particles and leadership of the CDF experiment.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Observation of top quark production in p̄p collisions with the collider detector at fermilab

    F. Abe;H. Akimoto;A. Akopian;M. G. Albrow

  • Evidence for the 125 GeV Higgs boson decaying to a pair of τ leptons

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A.M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Measurement of Higgs boson production and properties in the WW decay channel with leptonic final states

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Search for dark matter and large extra dimensions in monojet events in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Observation of a new boson with mass near 125 GeV in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=7 $ and 8 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Charged particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Measurement of the J/ψ meson and b-hadron production cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1960 GeV

    D. Acosta;J. Adelman;T. Affolder;T. Akimoto

  • Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in pPb collisions at the LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • The upgraded DØ detector

    V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins;B. S. Acharya

  • Search for leptonic decays of W' bosons in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp collisions at \sqrt {s} = 7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Measurement of the properties of a Higgs boson in the four-lepton final state

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Observation of the narrow state X(3872) → J/ψπ+π- in p̄p collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

    D. Acosta;T. Affolder;M. H. Ahn;M. H. Ahn;M. H. Ahn;T. Akimoto

  • Search for supersymmetry in hadronic final states with missing transverse energy using the variables αT and b-quark multiplicity in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Observation and studies of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Determination of jet energy calibration and transverse momentum resolution in CMS

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Study of the Mass and Spin-Parity of the Higgs Boson Candidate via Its Decays to Z Boson Pairs

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
Bruce A. Barnett
Bruce A. Barnett Johns Hopkins University
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
Andrey Korytov
Andrey Korytov University of Florida
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
Joe Incandela
Joe Incandela University of California, Santa Barbara
Jay Hauser
Jay Hauser University of California, Los Angeles

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