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Dr. Ia Iashvili
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Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Humboldt University, Berlin (2000)
Office: 343 Fronczak Hall, (716) 645-2017 ext. 194
Email: iashvili@fnal.gov
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Education |
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Ph.D. -- Humboldt University, Berlin (2000)
Diploma in Physics -- Tbilisi State University (1990)
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Research Interests |
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- Research and development of particle detectors
- Simulation of physics processes and detector response
- Test of Electroweak sector of the Standard Model
- Search for Higgs and Supersymmetric particles
- Precision measurements of particle properties
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Elementary particles and their interactions
are described by the Standard Model (SM).
The SM has been very successful in its predictions, as well as in
accounting for a variety
of experimental outcomes. Despite its extraordinary success, there are
strong conceptual
indications that the SM is incomplete. Moreover, one of the most
important ingredients
of the SM, the Higgs boson -- the particle responsible for the origin
of mass -- has not
been discovered yet.
My current research is focused on tests of the SM, measurements
of
its parameters and
on the searches for the Higgs particle. One of the parameters of the SM
is mass of the top
quark, which is the heaviest elementary particle observed so far. I
have been working
on the measurement of the top quark mass using data recorded by D0
experiment at Fermilab's
Tevatron collider. The Tevatron is world's
highest energy accelerator and the only facility
capable of producing
the top quarks.
Later in the decade, CERN's Large Hadron Collider will take over from
the Tevatron as a
next generation accelerator. Two general purpose detectors, CMS and
ATLAS, will record
events produced in proton-proton
collision at LHC. With its gigantic energy and high
luminosity, LHC
promises to be a true discovery machine. As a member of the CMS
Collaboration I have been investigating LHC potential for the
discovery of Higgs boson
and other particles predicted by theories beyond the SM.
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Selected Publications |
- Summary of the CMS potential for the Higgs Boson discovery, S.Abdoullin et al., Eur. Phys. J. C39S2 (2005).
- Discovery potential for supersymmetry in CMS, CMS Collaboration (S. Abdullin et al.), J. Phys. G28, 469 (2002).
- Searches for scalar quarks in e+e- interactions at sqrt{s}=189 GeV, L3 Collaboration (M.Acciarri et. al.) Phys. Lett. B471, 308 (1999).
- Search for the next-to-lightest Neutralino, I. Iashvili and A. Kharchilava, Nucl. Phys. B526, 153 (1998).
- Micro Gap Chambers with Self Aligned Geometry, J.M. Brom et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A414, 283 (1998).
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