TTU Physics: Faculty
Igor Volobouev
Assistant Professor of PhysicsOffice Phone: (806) 742-4752
Email: I.Volobouev@ttu.edu
Office: 116 Science Building
Ph.D. in Physics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (1997)
M.S. in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (1993)
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Research Interests
Experimental High Energy Physics. Precision tests of the Standard Model and searches for new phenomena. Top quark properties. Higgs searches. Particle detectors and data acquisition systems. Calorimetry, energy measurements, and jet reconstruction algorithms. Advanced data analysis techniques for HEP. Cluster and grid computing.
Most of my research is carried out at the CMS experiment at CERN and CDF experiment at Fermilab.
Selected Publications:
CDF Collaboration (A. Abulencia et al.) Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section using the k(T) algorithm in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV with the CDF II Detector. Physical Review D 75, 092006 (2007).
CDF Collaboration (A. Abulencia et al.) Precision top quark mass measurement in the lepton + jets topology in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV. Physical Review Letters 96, 022004 (2006).
CDF Collaboration (A. Abulencia et al.) Top Quark Mass Measurement Using the Template Method in the Lepton+Jets Channel at CDF II Physical Review D 73, 032003 (2006).
CDF Collaboration (D. Acosta et al.) Search for Radiative b-Hadron Decays in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.8 TeV Physical Review D 66, 112002 (2002).