Dr. Doreen Wackeroth

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Associate Professor, Ph.D. Karlsruhe (1995)

Office: 261 Fronczak Hall,  (716) 645-2017 ext. 175
Email: dow@ubpheno.physics.buffalo.edu
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Education

  Ph.D. -- University of Karlsruhe (1995)
Diploma in Physics, Technical University Munich/MPI Munich (1992)

Research Interests

 
  • The phenomenology of the Standard Model of particle physics and beyond
  • The calculation of radiative corrections (perturbative Quantum Field Theory) to the production of Top-quark pairs, W-boson pairs, W,Z and Higgs bosons, at existing and future hadron and lepton colliders within the SM and its supersymmetric extensions
  • The implementation of these calculations in Monte-Carlo generators to provide precise predictions taking into account the experimental environment
  • Quantum field-theoretical treatment of unstable particles
  My research in theoretical elementary particle physics aims to confront and challenge our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature and the mechanism of mass generation at the quantum level through precision experiments. The Standard Model of particle physics (SM) successfully describes the electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions of fundamental particles (e.g. electrons, quarks etc.) at the subatomic level. Precision measurements performed at particle colliders throughout the world (e.g. CERN LEP e+e- collider, Stanford Linear Collider, Tevatron pp collider at Fermilab) impressively confirmed the validity of the SM at the per mille level. Despite its enormous success, we know that the SM is merely a low- energy approximation of a more fundamental theory, which for instance will also incorporate gravity ("Theory of Everything"). We expect new physics beyond the SM to emerge at theTeV (=1 trillon eV) energy scale which will become accessible at future collider experiments. To fully exploit the wealth of data produced by the next generation of high and low-energy experiments (Tevatron RUN2, CERN LHC pp collider and a future e+e- Linear Collider), detailed calculations of the underlying processes, i.e. beyond the Born level, are crucial. My research is concerned with providing precise predictions for these experiments within the SM and beyond. This is one of the ingredients which will enable us to more precisely determine the parameters of the SM, testing its consistency, and search for indirect signals of new physics (e.g. supersymmetric extensions of the SM) via the presence of new particles in quantum loops.

Selected Publications

  1. "SUSY QCD one-loop effects in (un)polarized top-pair production at hadron colliders", Stefan Berge, Wolfgang Hollik, Wolf M. Mosle, Doreen Wackeroth, hep-ph/0703016, to be published in Phys. Rev. D.
  2. "Higgs boson production with one bottom quark jet at hadron colliders", S. Dawson, C.B. Jackson, L. Reina, and D. Wackeroth, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 031802 (2005).
  3. "Associated Higgs production with top quarks at the Large Hadron Collider: NLO QCD corrections", S. Dawson, C.Jackson, L. Reina, and D. Wackeroth, Phys. Rev. D68, 034022 (2003).
  4. "RACOONWW 1.3: A Monte Carlo program for four-fermion production at e+ e- colliders", A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, M. Roth and D. Wackeroth, Comput. Phys. Commun. 153, 462 (2003).
  5. "Electroweak radiative corrections to neutral-current Drell-Yan processes at hadron colliders", U. Baur, O. Brein, W. Hollik, C. Schappacher and D. Wackeroth, Phys. Rev. D65, 033007 (2002).
  6. "Electroweak radiative corrections in W boson production in hadronic collisions", U. Baur, S. Keller and D. Wackeroth, Phys. Rev. D59, 013002 (1999).