Regina Demina Professor of Physics Experimental High Energy Physics office: phone: Bausch & Lomb 364 (585) 275-7357 lab: phone: CERN 41-076-487-1845 fax: email: (585) 273-3237 regina@pas.rochester.edu home page: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~regina

Biographical Sketch

Prof. Demina received her B.A. in Physics (1985) and M.S. in Physics (1988) from Novosibirsk State University, and her Ph.D. in Physics (1994) from Northeasern University. After a postdoctoral position at Fermilab, she joined Kansas State University as Assistant Professor of Physics in 1999. She joined the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Physics in June of 2003, was promoted to Associate Professor in July 2003, and Professor of Physics in July 2007. Prof. Demina was named a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator in 2001.

Research

Prof. Demina's research interests are in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics. Along with Profs. Ferbel and Slattery, she is collaborating on the D-Zero Experiment at Fermilab, where her interests are concerned with understanding the mechanism of elecro-weak symmetry breaking and the study of top quark properties. The identification of heavy flavor jets, such as b and c-jets, is vitally important for these studies, and Prof. Demina is working on the development of heavy flavor tagging algorithms that employ lifetime information obtained using silicon microstrip detectors. She is co-leading the effort in the design and production of radiation hard high precision silicon sensors for use in the D-Zero Run2b upgrade. Such detectors will play a key role in new efforts at the Tevatron to search for the long sought after Higgs boson.

Along with Professors Bodek, Slattery and Tipton, Prof. Demina is also collaborating on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where she is the deputy project leader of the silicon outer barrel construction project. Her interests at the hadron-hadron collider include the search for exotic particles such as the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles such as the the scalar top and bottom quarks, studies of the top quark, and development and construction of silicon tracking detectors.

Recent Publications

1. Search for New Physics in e X Data at DO Using Sleuth: A Quasi-Model-Independent Search Strategy for New Physics
   Phys. Rev. D 62, 92004 (2000)
   
   
2. A Quasi-Model-Independent Search for New High pT Physics at DZero
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3712 (2001)
   
   
3. A Quasi-Model-Independent Search for New Physics at Large Transverse Momentum
   Phys. Rev. D 64, 012004 (2001)
   
   
4. Search for New Physics Using Quaero: A General Interface to DZero Data
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 231801 (2001)
   
   
5. Cross section for b jet production in p-pbar collisions at = 1.8 TeV
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5068 (2000)
   
   

For further details, go to Prof. Demina's home page at: http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~regina

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