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  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For significant contributions to measuring the properties of the top quark and to use it to probe for a variety of new physics signatures

Overview

R. Erbacher is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's main topics of research include Particle Detector Development and Performance, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies, High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Muon and positron interactions and applications, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena.

Recent publications by R. Erbacher reflect a strong involvement in experimental particle physics and instrumentation. Notable papers include:

  • High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector (2022) published in Science
  • Quality control of mass-produced GEM detectors for the CMS GE1/1 muon upgrade (2022) published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
  • Detector Control System for the GE1/1 slice test (2020) published in Journal of Instrumentation
  • Triple-GEM discharge probability studies at CHARM: simulations and experimental results (2020) published in Journal of Instrumentation
  • Production and validation of industrially produced large-sized GEM foils for the Phase-2 upgrade of the CMS muon spectrometer (2023) published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment

Frequent coauthors contributing to the scholar's research include A. Ahmed, A. De Iorio, A. Cerri, H. Abdalla, and A. Agapitos.

R. Erbacher has published multiple works in several established scientific venues, most frequently in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and Journal of Instrumentation, as well as in arXiv (Cornell University), Science, and Physical Review D.

Recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2018 with a citation acknowledging significant contributions to measuring the properties of the top quark and investigations to probe new physics signatures.

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

  • 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

  • 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 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;E. Asilar

  • Precise determination of the mass of the Higgs boson and tests of compatibility of its couplings with the standard model predictions using proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV

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

  • Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

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

  • 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

  • Jet energy scale and resolution in the CMS experiment in pp collisions at 8 TeV

    Khachatryan;AM Sirunyan;A Tumasyan;W Adam

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

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

  • CMS physics technical design report, volume II: Physics performance

    G. L. Bayatian;S. Chatrchyan;G. Hmayakyan;A. M. Sirunyan

  • Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;F. Ambrogi

  • 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

  • Search for physics beyond the standard model in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
Petar Maksimovic
Petar Maksimovic Johns Hopkins University
Andrey Korytov
Andrey Korytov University of Florida
Guenakh Mitselmakher
Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida
E. Halkiadakis
E. Halkiadakis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joe Incandela
Joe Incandela University of California, Santa Barbara
S. Somalwar
S. Somalwar Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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