Mark Kruse home page

Mark C. Kruse
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Duke University
email: mkruse"at"phy.duke.edu
Duke contact information

Teaching (04-09)

Current graduate students:
- Dean Hidas
Former graduate students:
- Sebastian Carron (now a postdoc at U. of Toronto)
- Sunny Chuang (U. of Wisconsin) (now a postdoc at Rutgers)
Current postdocs:
- Esben Klinkby (ATLAS)
- Andrea Bocci (ATLAS)
Former postdocs:
- Valentin Necula (CDF)
- Mircea Coca
- Susana Cabrera (now a faculty member at U. of Valencia)
Current undergraduate students: Ariana Minot (ATLAS), Stephen M. Smith (CDF)

Since you asked for it (well a couple of you did!):
A few of my physics cartoons

Research

Recent Analyses and Publications

Higgs searches

Current convener of the recently formed (Jan 2007) CDF "Higgs Discovery Group"
Search for Higgs decaying to WW
(thesis of Sunny Chuang)

public analysis webpage
Publication (Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 081802 (2006))

Combined V+(H -> bb) search (final limits from Run1)

analysis web page
Publication (Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 051801 (2005))

Diboson Physics

Measurement of the WW production cross-section

public analysis webpage
Publication (Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 211801 (2005))

Search for WZ and ZZ production at CDF

public analysis webpage
Publication (Phys. Rev. D71, 091105 (2005))

Top-Quark Physics

Global study of dilepton events (AIDA)
(thesis of Sebastian Carron)

public analysis webpage
Publication (to be submitted to PRL)

t-tbar cross-section in the dilepton channel

Publication (Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 142001 (2004))

CDF and ATLAS activities

Selected conference talks and proceedings

ATLAS at the LHC, CERN

Wiki for our ongoing TRT performance studies
ATLAS main page
US ATLAS mid-west physics group
US ATLAS analysis support group

CDF at Fermilab

Fermilab homepage
CDF homepage (public)
CDF homepage (internal)
SVX II homepage
SVXII/ISL power supply control, interlock, monitoring

Further information and interests

Physics, more(needs updating)

CDF TOP PHYSICS public page
CDF Exotic Physics (public)
CDF Electroweak Physics
D0 public top results
LEP EWK working group homepage

Top Thinkshop, October 1998
Run II Higgs Workshop
SPIRES HEP database
The official string theory website !

Omnium-gatherum

Cryptic Crossword Puzzles for AAF
Kiwi physicists abroad
physicsweb
My high-school (Penrose HS)
Favourite NZ music links
Rugby - the New Zealand All Blacks
CricInfo, the world in Cricket
Yahoo Quotes
New York Times
Photos (nothing yet - in progress)