Alice L. Bean, Professor

1077 Malott Hall
TEL: (785) 864-4742
FAX: (785) 864-5262
Email: abean@ku.edu

Professional Background:

KU Faculty: 1993 to present
Assistant Research Physicist, 1989-1993, University of California, Santa Barbara
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 1987-1989, University of California, Santa Barbara

Education:

Ph.D., 1987, Carnegie Mellon University (Physics)
M.S., 1984, Carnegie Mellon University (Physics)
B.S., 1982, University of California (Information & Computer Science)
B.S., 1982, University of California (Physics)

Honors Awards:

2004  University of Kansas, Department of Physics & Astronomy Teaching Award
1997   Woman of Distinction Award from Kansas Girl Scouts
1987-1989  University of California, President's Fellowship
1978-1982  University of California, Regents Scholarship
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Member, American Physical Society
Member, Sigma Pi Sigma
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Research Interests:

I'm involved with the following collaborations: D0, CMS, and RICE. I'm a leader of the D0 Layer 0 silicon effort and we are busy calibrating the existing D0 Silicon Microvertex Tracker. I also am in a group to look for the electroweak production of single top quarks. With CMS, I'm helping to build the Tracker Outer Barrel Silicon detector. With the RICE collaboration, I'm involved with testbeam activities to calibrate radio detector technology. Informal Science education. Through a joint project with the Dept of Art and Design we are producing an animated video where the characters are quarks. This video is the centerpiece for a museum project and a television show to motivate kids ages 5 and up to learn about quarks.

Selected Publication:

1. V.M. Abazov et al., First direct two-sided bound on the B0(s) oscillation frequency, Phys. Rev. Lett 97:021802, 2006

2. I. Kravchenko et al, RICE limits on the diffuse ultrahigh energy neutrino flux, Phys. Rev. D73:082002, 2006

3. V. M. Abazov et al, The Upgraded D0 detector, Nucl. Instrum. Met.A565:463, 2006

4. DO Collaboration (V.M. Abazov et al.), A Precision Measurement of the Mass of the Top Quark, Nature 429, 638, (2004).

5. N.E. Adam et al. (CLEO Collab.) Search for B ® pbar e nebar X Decay using a Partial Reconstruction Method, Physical Review D 68, 0123004, (2003).

6. Kravchenko et al. (RICE Collaboration), "Performance and Simulation of the RICE Detector," Astropart. Phys. 19, 15 (2003).

7. D0 Run2b Silicon group, The D0 Run2b Silicon Technical Design Report, http://d0server1.fnal.gov/projects/run2b/Silicon/www/smt2b/Documentation/
documentation.html, Prepared for the DOE Run2b Baselining Review Sept 24-26, 2002

8. V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collab.), Search for Single Top Quark Production at D0 Using Neural Networks, Physics Letters B 517, 282 (2001).

9. I. Kravchenko et al. (RICE Collab.), Performance and Simulation of the RICE Detector, Astroparticle Physics 19, 15 (2001).

10. A. Bean, Status of the D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A466, 262 (2001).

11. E. von Torne et al., Design and Initial Performance of the CLEO III Silicon Tracker, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A473, 17 (2001).

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