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Biographical Sketch
Prof. McFarland received his Sc.B. in Mathematics and Physics from Brown University in 1989. He did his graduate work in Physics at the University of Chicago and received his M.S. in 1991 and his Ph.D. in 1994. He held a Lederman Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1994 to 1998, and joined the University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002, and to Professor in 2005. Prof. McFarland was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1998, a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator in 1999, a Cottrell Scholar in 2001 and received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002. McFarland, who is also co-spokesperson of the MINERvA Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005.
Research
Prof. McFarland's interests are in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics. Along with Professors "Bodek" and "Tipton", he is currently collaborating on the CDF experiment at Fermilab which began studying frontier energy proton-antiproton collisions in 2001 and will continue through 2009. Prof. McFarland hopes to find evidence for unexpected interactions of the top quark which could provide clues about the origin of its surprisingly large mass. Prof. McFarland served as co-head of offline reconstruction at CDF (2000-2002), and his group is active in the Level-3 (processor) trigger and data acquisition upgrades.
Prof. McFarland's future efforts are directed towards neutrino interactions and neutrino oscillations (CCFR/NuTeV/MINERvA at Fermilab, JUPITER at Jefferson Lab, T2K at J-PARC). The ultimate goal of these high intensity accelerator-based neutrino experiments is determination of the parameters of neutrino mixing. Violations of matter-antimatter symmetry may be possible in these neutrino flavor transitions, and if they are observed, they may offer an explanation for the origin of the dominance of matter over antimatter in today's Universe. Prof. McFarland is the co-spokesperon of the MINERvA neutrino experiment at the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab.
Recent Publications
- Search for New Neutral Gauge Bosons Decaying to e+e- Using Dielectron Mass and Angular Distribution
CDF Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 211801 (2006)
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- A search for top decay into tau, neutrino and quark in top-antitop production
CDF Collaboration
Physics Letters B639, 172 (2006)
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- Measurement of the W boson polarization in top decay at CDF at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
CDF Collaboration
Phys Rev D 71, 031101 (2005)
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- A Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
NuTeV Collaboration, G.P. Zeller, K.S. McFarland et al
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 091802 (2002)
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- Neutrino Mass and Oscillation
Peter Fisher, Boris Kayser, Kevin McFarland
Annual Review Nucl. Part. Sci. 49, 481 (1999)
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