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Joel Nathan Butler

Joel Nathan Butler

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Physics
USA
2026

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Physics

D-Index
260
Citations
390500
World Ranking
1
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his leadership in the study of charm quark states

Overview

Joel Nathan Butler is affiliated with Fermilab in the United States and has contributed to the fields of physics and astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on nuclear and high energy physics, with additional work in radiation, instrumentation, astronomy and astrophysics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's areas of study cover a range of topics, including:

  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
  • Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
  • Nuclear physics research studies
  • Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
  • Particle Detector Development and Performance
  • Nuclear Physics and Applications
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Joel Nathan Butler has authored papers published in various scientific venues. Some of the recent publications include:

  • Measurement of the Nucleon F2n/F2p Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Measurements of Xi(c)+ branching ratios, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector, 2021, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Report of the 2021 U.S. Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2021) Summary Chapter, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Intracluster light is a biased tracer of the dark matter distribution in clusters, 2025, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • D. Abrams
  • H. Albataineh
  • B. Aljawrneh
  • S. Alsalmi
  • D. Androić

Joel Nathan Butler has contributed to research published in the following venues:

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Regarding recognitions, Butler has been named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018 and Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1990, with the APS award citing leadership in the study of charm quark states.

Best Publications

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • 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

  • The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    G. Aad;E. Abat;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC

    S. Chatrchyan;G. Hmayakyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan

  • The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A.A. Abdelalim

  • Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

    M. Aaboud;G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

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

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

  • Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Electron performance measurements with the ATLAS detector using the 2010 LHC proton-proton collision data

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • 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

  • Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010

    G. Aad;G. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties

    Vardan Khachatryan;Robin Erbacher;Camilo Andres Carrillo Montoya;Chang-Seong Moon

  • Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;S. Abdel Khalek

  • 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

  • Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at √ s =13 TeV

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott

  • Expected performance of the ATLAS experiment - detector, trigger and physics

    G. Aad;E. Abat;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

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

  • Search for the bb ¯ decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson in associated (W/Z)H production with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
P. M. Tuts
P. M. Tuts Columbia University
J. A. Parsons
J. A. Parsons Columbia University

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