|
|
||||||||||
Biographical Sketch
Prof. Ferbel received a B.A. in Chemistry (1959) from Queens College, CUNY, and his M.S. (1960) and Ph.D. in Physics (1963) from Yale University. After a postdoctoral position at Yale, he joined the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1965. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969 and to Professor in 1973. He has also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the College of Arts and Science (1989-91). He has held visiting appointments at Fermilab (1971-72), CERN (1980-81), Supercollider Design Group, LBL (1989-90), LAL Orsay (1995), the Heisenberg Max Planck Institute (1995-96), University of Mainz(1997, 2002), University of Freidberg (2002) and Imperial College, London (2002-2003).
Prof. Ferbel is co-author with Prof. Das of the text Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics (2nd Edition, World Scientific) and it's solution manual with Das and Prof. C. Bromberg, and is editor of a collection of articles on Experimental Techniques in High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics (2nd Edition, World Scientific), Silicon Detectors for High Energy Physics (Fermilab), and a series on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics (Plenum/Kluwer), based on an Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics that he founded and directed from 1980 to 2000. Prof. Ferbel has served on editorial boards of Physical Review, Zeitschrift fur Physik, and is on the the board of the International Journal of Modern Physics and Modern Physics Letters. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served as Secretary Treasurer of the Division of Particles and Fields, and as Chair of the APS Committee on the International Freedom of Scientists. He is currently a regional secretary of the Universities Research Association that manages Fermilab. Prof. Ferbel received a Judge Charles Colden Award (Queens College), was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a John S. Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Prize and a Senior PPARC Fellowship (Imperial College, London).
Research
Prof. Ferbel's research interests are in the area of Experimental High Energy Physics, particularly in the area of the phenomenology of particle physics, experimental investigations of hadron dynamics, meson spectroscopy, studies of perturbative QCD, and collider physics. He has been on program advisory committees of Brookhaven Laboratory and of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and has served as member of the Executive Committee of the Users' Organization of Brookhaven Laboratory, and as Chair of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Users' Organization. Prof. Ferbel has served as Chair of the Institutional Board of the D-Zero Collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron, and on advisory committees associated with the siting of the Supercollider, the ZEUS program in Canada, several DOE and NSF Panels evaluating university research programs and the selection of outstanding junior investigators. He has lectured widely, been scientific spokesmen for several experiments in particle physics, and has been a member of numerous organizing committees for workshops and conferences in particle physics.
His recent work has focused on issues pertaining to the top quark, as observed in the D-Zero collider experiment at Fermilab . In September 2004, Ferbel was appointed manager of the US Experimental High Energy Physics Program at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.
Recent Publications
- Direct Limits on the B0s Oscillation Frequency
Thomas, Ferbel
Physical Review Letters 97, 021802 (2006)
(download)
- Search for Squarks and Gluinos in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
Thomas, Ferbel
Physics Letters B 638, 119 (2006)
(abstract | download)
- Measurements of the isolated photon cross section in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
Thomas, Ferbel
Physical Review Letters 639, 151 (2006)
(download)
- Search for the standard model higgs boson in the ppbar->ZH->nu nubar b bbar channel
Thomas, Ferbel
Physical Review Letters 97, 161803 (2006)
(download)
- Multivariate searches for single top quark production with the DZero detector
Thomas, Ferbel
Physics Letters D (to appear in)
Go to Faculty Directory *