JOHN HOBBS
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
john.hobbs@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8107, Physics D-139
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Jul 02)
Biography
John Hobbs is a Professor at Stony Brook University carrying out research in experiment
Particle Physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991 for
thesis work on the OPAL experiment at the CERN LEP collider. After a CERN Scientific
Associate position with OPAL, he moved to Fermilab in 1993 to work on the DZero experiment
as a post doc and then as a Wilson Fellow. As a DZero post doc, he actively participated
in the top quark discovery analyses. He joined the Stony Brook Physics department
faculty in 1998 initially continuing with DZero, and joining the ATLAS experiment
in 2008. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, a multiple time winner of
the Physics and Astronomy departmental teaching award, and in 2024 he received a SUNY
Chancellor's award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Research Statement
My primary research interest is studies of fundamental particles and their interactions,
conducted at highest energy particle colliders. I am a member of the ATLAS collaboration
analyzing data from collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS and CMS co-discovered
the HIggs Boson, the last unobserved standard model particle, in 2012 and this guides
my active research. My current primary interest is exploration of Higgs Boson decays,
particularly looking for evidence of new particles in the Hdecay chain which are not
predicted by the standard model. Previously, I have worked on measurements of vector
boson production at the LHC, searches for new particles, measurement of the W Boson
mass using DZero data, the DZero top quark discovery analyses, and tau lepton lifetime
measurements.
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