Mark C Kruse, Associate Professor  

Mark C Kruse

Office Location: 283 Physics
Office Phone: (919) 660-2564
Email Address: mkruse@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mkruse/

Specialties:
Experimental high energy physics

Research Categories: Experimental High Energy Physics

Research Description: Prof. Mark Kruse is primarily interested in the study of the top quark, searches for the Higgs boson, and production of vector boson pairs. The top quark was discovered in 1995 at Fermilab and its huge mass (175 GeV) relative to the other quarks may be suggesting it is intimately connected to new physics, and in particular to the mechanism behind Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (and the generation of the masses of the fundamental particles). Within the Standard Model the generation of the masses of the W and Z bosons is accomplished through the Higgs mechanism, a manifestation of which is a particle called the Higgs boson. It is therefore of considerable importance in HEP to search for this Higgs boson. These programs of research will be conducted with the CDF detector at Fermilab, which started collecting data again after a major upgrade, in early 2002.

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Physics 53l9r.04r, General physics i (lab&rec)
    Physics 150, Th 03:30 PM-05:30 PM
  • Physics 53l9r.08r, General physics i (lab&rec)
    Physics 154, F 03:30 PM-05:30 PM
  • Physics 53l9r.09r, General physics i (lab&rec)
    Physics 150, Th 06:00 PM-08:00 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. M.C. Kruse, et al. (with the TEVNPH working group), Combined CDF and D0 Upper Limits on Standard Model Higgs Boson Production at High Mass (155-200-GeV/c^2) with 3 fb^-1 of data, e-Print: arXiv:0808.0534 (2008) [0534] .
  2. A. Bocci, M.C. Kruse, R. Wall (Duke U.), et al. (ATLAS TRT group), Combined performance tests before installation of the ATLAS Semiconductor and Transition Radiation Tracking Detectors, JINST 3:P08003,2008 (2008) .
  3. D. Hidas, M.C. Kruse (Duke U.), et al. (CDF collaboration), Search for a Higgs Boson Decaying to Two W Bosons at CDF, Phys. Rev. Lett. (Submitted, 2008) (arXiv:0809.3930.) [3930] .
  4. P. Giromini, F. Happacher, M.J. Kim , M. Kruse , K. Pitts , F. Ptohos, S. Torre, Phenomenological interpretation of the multi-muon events reported by the CDF collaboration, Phys. Rev. D (Submitted, 2008) (arXiv:0810.5730.) [5730] .
  5. S. Carron, M. Coca, M. Kruse, with A. Abulencia et al. (CDF collaboration), Cross Section Measurements of High-$p_T$ Dilepton Final-State Processes Using a Global Fitting Method, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 78 no. 012003 (2008) [0612058] .

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

    Postdocs Mentored

    • Esben Klinkby (October 01, 2008 - present)  
    • Valentin Necula (January 1, 2007 - May 31, 2008)  
    • Mircea Coca (September 1, 2004 - July 1, 2006)  
    • Susana Cabrera (February 1, 2001 - August 31, 2004)