Chris Pollard, Entered 2009/10
Office Location: 288 Physics
Office Phone: 919-660-2578
Email Address: chris.pollard@duke.edu
Specialties:
Experimental high energy physics
Education:
BS, Yale University, 2009
Research Categories: High Energy Physics, Top Physics, Exotic Physics, Vector Boson Scattering
Current projects: ttbar Resonances, Exotics for the Phase II Upgrade, Vector Boson Scattering for the Phase II Upgrade
Research Description: I currently work on searches for high mass resonances which decay to top-antitop pairs in the ATLAS collaboration. I have contributed to analyses in the dilepton and boosted lepton+jets channels, with particular interest in leptonically-decaying tops. I am also heavily involved in physics feasibility studies for the phase II ATLAS upgrade.
Recent Publications
- ATLAS Collaboration, Studies of Sensitivity to New Dilepton and Ditop Resonances with an Upgraded ATLAS Detector at a High-Luminosity LHC (February 14, 2013) [1516108] .
- ATLAS Collaboration, Studies of Vector Boson Scattering with an Upgraded ATLAS Detector at a High-Luminosity LHC (December 29, 2012) [1502667] .
- ATLAS Collaboration, Physics at a High-Luminosity LHC with ATLAS (Update) (October 15, 2012) [1484890] .
- ATLAS Collaboration, Physics at a High-Luminosity LHC with ATLAS (August 10, 2012) [1472518] .
- ATLAS Collaboration, A search for ttbar resonances with the ATLAS detector in 2.05 fb^-1 of proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, The European Physical Journal C [5371] .