Tambe Ebai Norbert

Previous Employment:
Diploma Student; Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy, 2007-2009

Current Employment:
Grad Student, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US, 2009-

Awards:
Abdus Salam ICTP International Scholarship 2007-2009.

Discovering the Higgs and Physics BSM is no easy task ( a la Experiment). We need to Understand with very fine precision how this huge detectors almost 100m underneath the ground works. My focus in contributing towards understanding this detectors at least the CMS has been narrowed to the ECAL sub detector. Almost all the measurements we make like mass of particles, calculation of (Cross Section or Number of Particles observed) requires Timing and Synchronization of the different components( channels ) of this Detector to very very good precision if we are to discover Higgs for example. So my interest at the moment lies in finding the Absolute Timing Calibration constants for better synchronization as well as being able to separate two photons or clusters to within the mm scale( Timing Resolution) impinging on the same crystal or nearby crystals. We study decays of some mesons like pi-zero, rho-zero, eta, eta_c into two Photons to find these calibration constants and perfect our time resolutions. By so doing we will be able to reject background from such decays and other processes like Beam Halos, Cosmic rays etc that has and is still making it (hopefully not for too long) very difficult for us to find our Golden clean channel of Light Higgs( Mass=120GeV) decaying into two photons. If we are able to arrive at such high precisions, we could also be able to find other slow moving particles or long time decaying particles call Neutralinos( SUSY particle) into two Photons and voila`! we discovered New Physics.