Maxwell Chertok Associate Professor | Dept. of Physics | UC Davis | Fall Teaching: Physics 7A

My research involves High Energy Physics, on CDF at Fermilab and CMS at CERN, among other things, like CACTUS. New! Video of cosmics and beam through the CMS detector (19 Mb file) I've been interviewed regarding the LHC startup and safety concerns: KCRA Sacramento nightly news 9/08/08 WJBC Radio 9/10/08 KXJZ Radio (with J. Gunion) 9/15/08 Photos from our CMS Forward Pixel detector installation at CERN, Jul '08 Sacramento Bee Article about our group's research: 8/12/07 3 physics majors (so far!) have written honors theses with my guidance Recent talks, etc. Tevatron Chargino-Neutralino Searches, DIS '08 Tevatron Searches for Heavy Bosons, Aspen Winter Conf. '07 Mar. 7, '07 Physics 295 Graduate seminar presentation Leptons and quarks: are they related? (FNAL R.O.W., 7/05/07) When "Heavy Photons" Decay to Taus (FNAL R.O.W., 1/12/06) Heaviest Top! Lightest Stop? (FNAL R.O.W., 8/25/05) PHY252B SLAC field trip photos, 6/2005 (Photos from '04)

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Some of our group's recent physics analysis on CMS and CDF

• UC Davis Chargino-Neutralino trilepton search for CMS
• Robert Forrest's trilepton search for CDF (Internal page)
• 3rd Generation Vector Leptoquark Search at CDF Public Page
• Doubly-charged Higgs Search with taus at CDF Public Page
• R-parity violating top squark search with taus at CDF Public Page
• Z to tau pairs measurement at CDF Public Page

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Interesting physics links

• Wikipedia article on particle physics
• Fermilab virtual tour
• Video on the Large Hadron Collider : "The Lords of the Ring" (Low-res version)
• Deconstructing the LHC (article from Symmetry Magazine)
• The CMS Times (weekly newsletter)
• CMS installation & commissioning webcams
• Natural reactors in Gabon
• Benson T. Chertok Tribute

Interesting non-physics links

• How to get good fonts with LaTeX
• Wikipedia article on Pearl Chertok