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  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his significant contributions to the success of the CDF II experiment In particular for the leadership role he played during the construction, installation and datataking operations and for the data analyses he spearheaded and published, including the observation of three new baryons that carry bquark and their precision determination of their masses

Overview

P. Lukens is affiliated with Fermilab in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in physics and astronomy, with a particular focus on nuclear and high energy physics. Their work spans multiple subfields, including astronomy and astrophysics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, radiation, and condensed matter physics.

The scientist's primary research topics encompass dark matter and cosmic phenomena, particle detector development and performance, particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, atomic and subatomic physics research, superconducting and THz device technology, radiation detection and scintillator technologies, and neutrino physics research.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • Constraints on low-mass, relic dark matter candidates from a surface-operated SuperCDMS single-charge sensitive detector (2020), published in Physical Review D
  • Light Dark Matter Search with a High-Resolution Athermal Phonon Detector Operated above Ground (2021), published in Physical Review Letters
  • Constraints on dark photons and axionlike particles from the SuperCDMS Soudan experiment (2020), published in Physical Review D
  • Design and characterization of a phonon-mediated cryogenic particle detector with an eV-scale threshold and 100 keV-scale dynamic range (2021), published in Physical Review D
  • Search for low-mass dark matter via bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect in SuperCDMS (2023), published in Physical Review D

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • E. Figueroa-Feliciano
  • Y.-Y. Chang
  • S. R. Golwala
  • Z. Hong
  • C. Bathurst

P. Lukens has published primarily in the following venues:

  • Physical Review D
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review Applied
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The European Physical Journal C

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011, with a citation highlighting their leadership roles and contributions during the CDF II experiment. This included responsibilities in construction, installation, data-taking operations, and data analyses, such as the observation and precision measurement of three new baryons containing a b-quark.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Topology of three-jet events in p»p collisions at s=1.8 TeV

    F. Abe;D. Amidei;G. Apollinari;M. Atac

  • 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

  • Observation of the Bc meson in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

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

  • INCLUSIVE JET CROSS SECTION IN P P COLLISIONS AT S = 1.8 TEV

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

  • Measurement of the antiproton-proton total cross section at s =546 and 1800 GeV

    F. Abe;M. Albrow;D. Amidei;C. Anway-Wiese

  • Measurement of the J/psi meson and b-hadron production cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1960 GeV RID C-1693-2008 RID G-1087-2011 RID E-4473-2011

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

  • 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

  • Double parton scattering in [Formula presented] collisions at [Formula presented]

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

  • 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

  • First measurement of electron neutrino appearance in NOvA

    P. Adamson;C. Ader;M. Andrews;N. Anfimov

  • Search for new particles decaying to dijets at CDF

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

  • Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a bb pair using the full CDF data set

    T. Aaltonen;R. Field;A. Clark;J.R. Dittmann

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Yoh
J. Yoh Fermilab
L. Pondrom
L. Pondrom University of Wisconsin–Madison
A. T. Goshaw
A. T. Goshaw Duke University
P. F. Shepard
P. F. Shepard University of Pittsburgh
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
A. Barbaro-Galtieri
A. Barbaro-Galtieri Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bruce A. Barnett
Bruce A. Barnett Johns Hopkins University
D. Toback
D. Toback Texas A&M University

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