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.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. 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 (Submitted, 2006) [0612058] .
  2. M. Brozovic, A. Goshaw, M. Kruse, W. Robertson (Duke U.), with D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration), Search for W and Z bosons in $p\bar{p} \to 2\ {\rm jets} + \gamma$ at $sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV, Phys. Rev. D, vol. 73 no. 012001 (2006) [0507051] .
  3. M. Coca, M. Kruse, S. Chuang, with A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration), Search for a Neutral Higgs Boson Decaying to a $W$ Boson Pair in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 97 no. 081802 (2006) [0605124] .
  4. S. Cabrera, S. Carron, A. Goshaw, Y. Huang, M. Kruse (Duke U.), with D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration), Measurement of the $W^+ W^-$ Production Cross Section in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96$ TeV Using Dilepton Events, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 94 no. 211801 (2005) [0501050]  [abs].
  5. M. C. Kruse and W. Yao, with D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration), Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying into $b\bar{b}$ and Produced in Association with a Vector Boson in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.8$ TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 95 no. 051801 (2005) [0503039]  [abs].

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Dean A. Hidas  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Valentin Necula (January 1, 2007 - present)  
  • Mircea Coca (September 1, 2004 - July 1, 2006)  
  • Susana Cabrera (February 1, 2001 - August 31, 2004)