RESEARCH INTERESTS

Experimental Particle Physics

BIOGRAPHY
B.S., Physics (1975)
University of Maryland
M.S., Physics (1977)
State University of New York
Ph.D., Physics(1981)
State University of New York

Professor Adams experimental high energy physics (HEP) research at hadron colliders is focussed on the searches for massive elementary particles which may signal possible, new physics beyond the standard model of HEP. These include leptoquark and Higgs particle searches and exploration of the properties of top quarks. He has built optical readout and trigger electronics for the CMS hadron calorimeter at CERN (Geneva) and tracking/preshower detectors for D0. He is currently working on the Higgs search in the D0 experiment at Fermilab and preparing for exciting data at the new energy regime at CMS, expected later this year. A collaboration of 10 Chicago high schools form the Chicago Large Air Shower Array (http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/quarknet/map.html), part of Professor Adams' QuarkNet program (http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/quarknet/) to bring cosmic ray experiments to high schools.

PUBLICATIONS

• Observation of the Top Quark, Phys. Rev. Letters {74} 2632 (1995) FERMILAB PUB-95/028-E PS
• Search for a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, submitted to Phys. Lett. B (2007).Fermilab-Pub-07/076-E.
• Search for Second Generation Leptoquark Pairs Decaying to mu+nu+jets in pbarp collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.8 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. {83}, 2896 1999.FERMILAB PUB-99/123-E, hep-ex/9904023. PS
• Limits on Anomalous WWgamma and WWZ Couplings from WW/WZ ->evjj Production,Phys. Rev. D {62}, 052005 (2000).hep-ex/9912033.
• ttbar production cross section in pbarp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV,Phys. Rev. D {67}, 012004 (2003)hep-ex/0205019. PS