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D-Index
81
Citations
25219
World Ranking
2926
National Ranking
1427

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his leading role in heavyflavor physics at the Tevatron Collider, including the first evidence of CP violation in bottom mesons, and for significant contributions to triggering at the Collider

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Particle physics
  • Electron
  • Standard Model

His scientific interests lie mostly in Particle physics, Nuclear physics, Tevatron, Fermilab and Production. Particle decay, Standard Model, Collider Detector at Fermilab, Pair production and Meson are the core of his Particle physics study. Missing energy is closely connected to Supersymmetry in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Standard Model.

His Nuclear physics study typically links adjacent topics like Boson. K. T. Pitts has researched Tevatron in several fields, including Quantum chromodynamics, Collider, Branching fraction and Lepton. His studies in Production integrate themes in fields like Hadron and CP violation.

His most cited work include:

  • Observation of the narrow state X(3872) → J/ψπ+π- in p̄p collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV (403 citations)
  • Measurement of the J/ψ meson and b-hadron production cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1960 GeV (371 citations)
  • Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron (223 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

K. T. Pitts focuses on Particle physics, Nuclear physics, Tevatron, Standard Model and Lepton. His Particle physics study is mostly concerned with Fermilab, Top quark, Collider Detector at Fermilab, Quark and Production. His Nuclear physics study frequently involves adjacent topics like Boson.

His Tevatron research includes elements of Quantum chromodynamics, Invariant mass, Pair production, Collider and Branching fraction. His work in Standard Model covers topics such as Higgs boson which are related to areas like Large Hadron Collider. His Lepton study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Neutrino and Elementary particle.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Particle physics (85.78%)
  • Nuclear physics (71.77%)
  • Tevatron (43.33%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Particle physics (85.78%)
  • Nuclear physics (71.77%)
  • Tevatron (43.33%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

K. T. Pitts mainly focuses on Particle physics, Nuclear physics, Tevatron, Standard Model and Lepton. Higgs boson, Quark, Top quark, Luminosity and Boson are among the areas of Particle physics where the researcher is concentrating his efforts. His biological study deals with issues like Production, which deal with fields such as Collider Detector at Fermilab and Meson.

He works mostly in the field of Tevatron, limiting it down to topics relating to Quantum chromodynamics and, in certain cases, Antiproton, as a part of the same area of interest. His study in Standard Model is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Charge and W and Z bosons. His Lepton research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Particle decay, Supersymmetry and Electroweak interaction.

Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron (223 citations)
  • Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier (197 citations)
  • Measurement of the top quark forward-backward production asymmetry and its dependence on event kinematic properties (152 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Particle physics
  • Electron
  • Standard Model

K. T. Pitts mainly investigates Particle physics, Nuclear physics, Tevatron, Standard Model and Fermilab. His study explores the link between Particle physics and topics such as Lepton that cross with problems in Invariant mass. His Nuclear physics study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Asymmetry.

The concepts of his Tevatron study are interwoven with issues in Rapidity, Detector and CP violation. His research in Standard Model tackles topics such as Pair production which are related to areas like Perturbative QCD, Strong interaction, Particle, Gluon and Quantum chromodynamics. The study incorporates disciplines such as Helicity, Baryon and Collider in addition to Fermilab.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for a Mass Dependent Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production

    T. Aaltonen;B. Álvarez González;B. Álvarez González;S. Amerio;D. Amidei

  • Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode

    T. Aaltonen;V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins

  • Charged jet evolution and the underlying event in proton- antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV

    T. Affolder;H. Akimoto;A. Akopian;M. G. Albrow

  • Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

    A. Abulencia;D. Acosta;J. Adelman;T. Affolder

  • Search for new particles decaying into dijets in proton-antiproton collisions at s=1.96TeV

    T. Aaltonen;J. Adelman;T. Akimoto;B. Álvarez González;B. Álvarez González

  • Measurement of the Top Quark Mass

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

  • Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in higgs boson searches at the tevatron

    T. Aaltonen;V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;B. S. Acharya

  • Measurement of the top quark mass with the collider detector at fermilab

    T. Affolder;H. Akimoto;A. Akopian;M. G. Albrow

  • Measurement of the top quark forward-backward production asymmetry and its dependence on event kinematic properties

    T. Aaltonen;S. Amerio;D. Amidei;A. Anastassov

  • Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton + jets channel at CDF II

    A. Abulencia;D. Acosta;J. Adelman;T. Affolder

  • Measurements of the angular distributions in the decays B→K(*)μ(+)μ(-) at CDF.

    T. Aaltonen;B. Álvarez González;B. Álvarez González;S. Amerio;D. Amidei

  • Measurement of the dipion mass spectrum in X(3872) → J/ψπ+π- decays

    A. Abulencia;D. Acosta;J. Adelman;T. Affolder

  • Analysis of the quantum numbers J(PC) of the X(3872) particle.

    A. Abulencia;J. Adelman;T. Affolder;T. Akimoto

  • Precise measurement of the W-boson mass with the CDF II detector

    T. Aaltonen;B. Álvarez González;B. Álvarez González;S. Amerio;D. Amidei

  • Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider

    T. Aaltonen;V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;B. S. Acharya

  • First flavor-tagged determination of bounds on mixing-induced CP violation in Bs0→J/ψ decays

    T. Aaltonen;J. Adelman;T. Akimoto;M. G. Albrow

  • Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider using a cone-based jet algorithm

    T. Aaltonen;J. Adelman;T. Akimoto;M. G. Albrow

  • Search for high-mass resonances decaying to dimuons at CDF.

    T. Aaltonen;J. Adelman;T. Akimoto;B. Álvarez González

  • Polarizations of J/ψ and ψ(2S) mesons produced in pp̄ collisions at s=1.96TeV

    A. Abulencia;J. Adelman;T. Affolder;T. Akimoto

  • Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

    T. Affolder;H. Akimoto;A. Akopian;M. G. Albrow

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Toback
D. Toback Texas A&M University
A. T. Goshaw
A. T. Goshaw Duke University
P. Lukens
P. Lukens Fermilab
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
Bruce A. Barnett
Bruce A. Barnett Johns Hopkins University
A. Barbaro-Galtieri
A. Barbaro-Galtieri Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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