Teaching:

• Selected topics in particle physics
• Electricity and magnetism
• Modern physics
• Mathematical methods in physics II
• Introduction to particle and nuclear physics
• 3rd-year project seminar
• Particle physics II for graduate students
• Waves

Research:

• List of publications (might not be fully up to date)
• List of recent invited talks (might not be fully up to date)
• The ATLAS Experiment at CERN.
  Operating at the LHC, the highest-energy particle collider ever constructed ATLAS is exploring the energy frontier of particle physics. My research on ATLAS focuses on searching for new particles that are long-lived, which are predicted in many extensions to the standard model. Particles that decay milimiters to tens of centimeters from their production point are detected by the very precise ATLAS tracker. My students, postdocs and I participated in the first LHC publication of this kind of search, interpreted in the context of supersymmetric models. In the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th papers, we added data, expanded the search signature, and improved the analysis. In the 5th paper, we applied our expertise to the search for right-handed neutrinos, achieving 20 times more sensitive limits than the previous search. We are currently increasing the sensitivity further, by improving our techniques and using additional final states.. The sensitivity of these background-free searches will grow linearly with the LHC luminosity, which will grow almost 100-fold relative to the last published analysis. This poses a great opportunity, as well as interesting technical challenges as we expand the search parameter space.
• The Belle II Experiment at KEK.
  Belle II builds on the success of the previous-generation experiments, BaBar and Belle, which greatly improved our understanding of heavy-flavor physics and CP violation, leading to the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. Belle II collects data from electron-positron collisions produced by SuperKEKB, the world's highest-luminosity collider. The 40-fold increase in the collected data set and use of an improved detector help probe flavor-changing new physics at mass scales much higher than those of LHC. My group is involved in several areas at Belle II:
  • Searches for long-lived particles in parameter-space regions not accessible to LHC, particularly those probing heavy flavor. In particular, we are following up experimentally on our phenomenological papers 1908.0971 and 2012.00438, and divising additional ideas to search for long-lived particles at Belle II.
  • Developingd new methods that take advantage of Belle II's high spatial resolution to perform studies that have never been done before.
  • Using modern machine-learning tools to improve a broad spectrum of measurements. We are currently applying this technique to understand the nature of the exotic hadron X(3872), which appears to be a quantum superposition of a quark-antiquark bound state and a meson-antimeson "molecule".
• Phenomenology.
  Although I am not a theorist, I frequently collaborate with theorists on phenomenology papers. They are included in my list of publications
• Experiments where I previously conducted research:
  • The BaBar Experiment at SLAC.
  • The CLEO Experiment at Cornell

Additional links:

To learn more about particle physics, see the following:

• The Particle Adventure gives an introductory tutorial to particle physics
• ATLAS Experiment public page has introductory and tutorial material about the detector and the physics it will study
• SLAC Virtual Visitor Center gives an introduction to particle physics and experiments at SLAC

Tel Aviv University links that I use often:

• School of Physics and Astronomy
• Department of Particle Physics
• Researcher info at TAU

Additional useful particle-physics links:

• root and RooFit
• A chi² probability calculator
• SPIRES particle physics database search engine
• Los Alamos physics archives
• My web page at SLAC