University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Research:
Experimental high-energy particle physics, at the moment focused on the top quark and its weak interactions. Current projects:
o The D0 experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) in Batavia, IL. This experiment is currently taking data, and will until at least 2009. Students starting soon will do their thesis work here. http://www-d0.fnal.gov/
o The CMS experiment at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. This experiment is in the design and construction phase, and will start taking data in 2007 (we hope). http://cms.cern.ch/
At UNL, I collaborate on these projects with faculty members Dan Claes, Aaron Dominguez, and Greg Snow. In the past, I've worked on:
o The CDF experiment, also at FNAL (1989-1992 and 1997-2004). http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/ My final project there was a measurement of the branching fraction for the (highly favored) final state Wb. We published a paper on this in Physical Review Letters. I served as convenor of the lepton-plus-jets subgroup of the top-physics group for a year and a half, and as the leader of the muon-software project for two and a half years. Years earlier, as an undergraduate, I wrote a senior thesis on data taken in 1988-89, a measurement of the cross section for Drell-Yan production of electron pairs with small invariant mass.
o The CLEO experiment at Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (1992-1997). http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLEO/ My PhD thesis was on a complete characterization of the decay B->Dlnu using newfangled neutrino-reconstruction techniques.
2008
Measurement of the Shape of the Boson-Transverse Momentum Distribution in pp → Z/ γ* = → e+e- + X Events Produced at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Model-Independent Measurement of the W-Boson Helicity in Top-Quark Decays at D0, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Observation of the Doubly Strange b Baryon Ωb-, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for excited electrons in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in Multi-b-Jet Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for scalar top quarks in the acoplanar charm jets and missing transverse energy final state in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for squarks and gluinos in events with jets and missing transverse energy using 2.1 fb-1 of pp collision data at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for supersymmetry in di-photon final states at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for the lightest scalar top quark in events with two leptons in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Missing Energy and Acoplanar b-Jet Topology at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying into τb, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for W’ Bosons Decaying to an Electron and a Neutrino with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Evidence for production of single top quarks, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
First Study of the Radiation-Amplitude Zero in W γ Production and Limits on Anomalous WW γ Couplings at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Measurement of the differential cross section for the production of an isolated photon with associated jet in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Observation of the Bc Meson in the Exclusive Decay Bc → J/ψπ, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Decay of a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson hƒ→ γγ with the D0 Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Large Extra Dimensions via Single Photon plus Missing Energy Final States at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Electron or Photon Pairs with the D0 Detector, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Pair Production of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in the H++H-- → μ+μ+μ-μ- Final State, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for scalar leptoquarks and T-odd quarks in the acoplanar jet topology using 2.5 fb−1 of pp collision data at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for Scalar Neutrino Superpartners in e + μ Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Search for tt resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DØ Collaboration
Observation and Properties of the Orbitally Excited B*s2 Meson, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current D Meson Decays, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons with1 fb-1 of Data from pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Search for W′ Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Search for ZZ and Zγ* Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Limits on Anomalous ZZZ and ZZγ* Couplings, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Simultaneous Measurement of the Ratio R = B(t → Wq) and the Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Section with the D0 Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
Study of Direct CP Violation in B± → J/ψK±(π±) Decays, V. M. Abazov, Gregory Snow, Kenneth A. Bloom, and D0 Collaboration
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, S. Chatrchyan, Kenneth A. Bloom, Brian Bockelman, Daniel Claes, A. Dominguez, Michael Eads, Makoto Furukawa, J. Keller, T. Kelly, Carl Lundstedt, Sudhir Malik, Gregory Snow, David Swanson, and CMS Collaboration
2007
Measurement of the pp̅ → WZ + X cross section at √s =1.96 TeV and limits on WWZ trilinear gauge couplings, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the tt̅ production cross section in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using kinematic characteristics of lepton + jets events, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the Λb0 Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Production of Single Top Quarks Via tcg and tug Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current Couplings, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Study of the Decay Bs0 → Ds(*)Ds(*), V. M. Abazov, Kenneth A. Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets channel using the ideogram method, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, D0 Collaboration, and Gregory Snow
Direct Observation of the Strange b Baryon Ξb-, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |Vtb|, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Experimental Discrimination between Charge 2ℯ/3 Top Quark and Charge 4ℯ/3 Exotic Quark Production Scenarios, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Lifetime Difference and CP-Violating Phase in the Bs0 System, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the shape of the boson rapidity distribution for pp̅ → Z/ γ* → ℯ+ℯ- + X events produced at √s of 1.96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Multivariate searches for single top quark production with the D0 detector, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Techniparticles in ℯ + jets Events at D0, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Third-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the Charge Asymmetry in Semileptonic Bs0 Decays, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collboration
Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96TeV, A. Abulenci, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Evidence for B0 → ρ0 ρ0 Decays and Implications for the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Angle α, B. Aubert, Kenneth Bloom, and BaBar Collaboration
US CMS Tier-2 Computing, Kenneth Bloom
2006
Kenneth Bloom: Curriculum vitae
Kenneth Bloom: Publications List through January 2006
Direct Limits on the Bs0 Oscillation Frequency, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from WW → e+e-, WW → e± μ±, and WW → μ+ μ- events from pp̅ collisions at √s =1.96 TeV , V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of Bd mixing using opposite-side flavor tagging, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the Bs0 Lifetime Using Semileptonic Decays, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the CP-violation parameter of B0 mixing and decay with pp̅ → μμX data, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton +jets final state with the matrix element method, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Publisher’s Note: Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings from WW → ℯ+ ℯ-, WW → ℯ±μ±, and WW → μ+μ- events from pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV [Phys. Rev. D 74, 057101 (2006)], V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for a heavy resonance decaying into a Z+ jet final state in pp̅ collisions at √s =1:96 TeV using the D0 detector, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Associated Higgs Boson Production WH → WWW*→ l±νl′±ν′ +X in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for excited muons in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Two Muons in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Pair Production of Scalar Bottom Quarks in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1:96 TeV, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for Resonant Second Generation Slepton Production at the Fermilab Tevatron, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for the rare decay Bs0 → φμ+ μ- with the D0 detector, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the pp̅→ ZH → νν̅bb̅ Channel, V.M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for scalar leptoquarks in the acoplanar jet topology in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and D0 Collaboration
Search for R-parity violating supersymmetry via the LLĒ couplings λ121, λ122 or λ133 in pp collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV, V. M. Abazov, Kenneth Bloom, Gregory Snow, and DO Collaboration
Direct Search for Dirac Magnetic Monopoles in pp̅ Collisions at p√s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Evidence for the Exclusive Decay Bc± → J/ψπ± and Measurement of the Mass of the Bc± Meson, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of mass and width of the excited charmed meson states D10 and D2*0 at CDF, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the Dipion Mass Spectrum in X(3872) → J/ψπ+π- Decays, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the helicity of W bosons in top-quark decays, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in pp̅ interactions at √s = 1:96 TeV using a cone-based jet algorithm, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section Using the kT Algorithm in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions Ɓ(Bs0 → Ds-π+)/ Ɓ(B0 → D- π+) and Ɓ(B+ →D0 π+)/ Ɓ(B0 → D- π+), A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the top quark mass with the dynamical likelihood method using lepton plus jets events with b-tags in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the tt̅ Production Cross Section in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV Using MissingET+ jets Events with Secondary Vertex b Tagging, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Precision Top-Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton+Jets Topology in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1.96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for anomalous semileptonic decay of heavy flavor hadrons produced in association with a W boson at CDF II, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for Charged Higgs Bosons from Top Quark Decays in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to bb̅ and Produced in Association with W Bosons in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Decaying to τ Pairs in pp̅ Collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks from Gluino Decays in p̅p Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for second-generation scalar leptoquarks in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1:96 TeV, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Top-Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at CDF II, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Top quark mass measurement using the template method in the lepton + jets channel at CDF II, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of Bottom-Quark Hadron Masses in Exclusive J/ψ Decays with the CDF Detector, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Search for W and Z bosons in the reaction p̅p → two jets + γ at √s = 1.8 TeV, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons fromW boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and Fermilab Collaboration
2005
Search for Bs0→µ+µ- and Bd0→µ+µ- Decays in pρ̅ Collisions with CDF II, A. Abulencia, Kenneth Bloom, and Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration
Measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicities in Gluon and Quark Jets in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1.8 TeV, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration
Measurement of the Cross Section for Prompt Diphoton Production in pp̅ Collisions at √s =1.96 TeV, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration
Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into b b̅ and Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in p p̅ Collisions at √s =1.8 TeV, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration
Comparison of three-jet events in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV to predictions from a next-to-leading order QCD calculation, D. Acosta, Kenneth Bloom, and Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration