Christopher W. Walter, Assistant Professor  

Office Location: 271 Physics
Office Phone: (919) 660-2535
Email Address: cwalter@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~cwalter/

Specialties:
Experimental high energy physics

Education:
PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1997
MS, California Institute of Technology, 1991
BA, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1989

Research Categories: Experimental Particle Physics, Neutrino Physics, Particle-Astrophysics

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Fechner, M. and Walter, C. W., The physics impact of proton track identification in future megaton-scale water Cherenkov detectors, JHEP, vol. 11 (2009), pp. 040 [pdf]  [abs].
  2. Fechner, M. and others, Kinematic reconstruction of atmospheric neutrino events in a large water Cherenkov detector with proton identification, Phys. Rev., vol. D79 (2009), pp. 112010 [pdf]  [abs].
  3. Nishino, H. and others, Search for Proton Decay via p -> e^+ pi^0 and p -> mu^+ pi^0 in a Large Water Cherenkov Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 102 (2009), pp. 141801 [pdf]  [abs].
  4. Watanabe, H. and others, First Study of Neutron Tagging with a Water Cherenkov Detector (December, 2008) [pdf]  [abs].
  5. Walter, Christopher W., Experimental Neutrino Physics, in Proceeding of the XXXIV International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP08), University of Pennsylvania, USA, August, 2008 (2008) [pdf]  [abs].

Postdocs Mentored

  • Roger Wendel (May, 2008 - present)  
  • Maximilien Fechner (2006 - 2008)  
  • Naho Tanimoto (2005 - 2008)