Dr. Brandon Hartfiel, PhD
Louisiana State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
HYPERLINKED VERSION AVAILABLE AT http://www.phys.lsu.edu/~hartfiel/CV.doc
Education
2005 PhD. in Physics – University of California, Los Angeles GPA - 3.78/4
Teaching Evaluation - 7.7/9, Qualifying Exam Rank - 6th out of 24
Thesis Search for Popcorn Mesons in Events with Two Charmed Baryons
2000 Maitrise Physique – Universite de Paris XI – Mention Bien (Honors).
In exchange with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. GPA – 5.1/6
Electives - VLSI Analog Circuits, Neuroinformatics, Quantum Computers
1999 Licence de Physique - Universite de Paris XI – Mention Assez Bien
1992 B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Texas at Austin
Graduated in 3½ years with honors.
Work Experience
8/2007 -Present Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University.
Scintillator and photosensor testing for T2K neutrino
oscillation experiment. Supervised Master's Thesis work
of Kevin McBryde and 2-3 undergraduates/semester.
6/2006 – 7/2007 Research Associate at California State University –
Dominguez Hills. Neutron – Antineutron Oscillation upper limit
measurement at Super-Kamiokande.
9/2005 – 2/2006 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris VI, continuing
work on the BaBar experiment.
2001- 2005 Research Assistant – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center –
Operational commissioner of the BaBar Cherenkov Detector
(DIRC). Created particle identification algorithms using the DIRC.
Measured the LC continuum momentum spectrum and the number
of popcorn mesons formed between LC LC _bar pairs.
7/1999- 8/1999 Research Assistant – Universite de Paris XI, Department of
Physical Chemistry–Hartree-Foch computer simulations of
calcium clusters.
1994-1998 Accountant – Partners Title Company
Teaching Experience
Spring 2007 Cal State Dominguez Hills, Physical Science Lab for Teachers.
1 Section. Evaluation 79% Strongly Agreed I was effective.
Spring 2005 UCLA, Honors Physics Discussion for Scientists and Engineers:
Electrodynamics, Optics and Special Relativity. 1 Section. Evaluation 8.0/9.0
Spring 2001 UCLA, Physics Lab for Life Science Majors: Light, Fluids,
Thermodynamics and Modern Physics. 3 Sections. Evaluation 7.6/9.0
Substitute Lecture for Algebra Based Physics - Gravity
Papers
Inclusive Lc Production in e+ e - Annihilations at sqrt{s}=10.54 GeV and in U(4S)
Decays http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ex/0609004
Phys. Rev D 75, 012003 (2007)
The DIRC Particle Identification System for the BaBar Experiment
Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A538:281-357, 2005 SLAC-PUB-10516
UCLA space-time area law model: A Persuasive foundation for hadronization.
Eur.Phys.J.C49:569-580,2007
Identified Hadron Production at SLD and BaBar. Eur.Phys.J.C33 S572-574,2004
http://publish.edpsciences.org/articles/epjc/pdf/2004/19/10052S572.pdf
Coauthor of 196 papers by the BaBar Collaboration
Coauthor of 2 papers by the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration
Presentations
July 2007 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at Super Kamiokande I
TRIUMF Seminar. Vancouver Canada
May 2007 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at Super Kamiokande I
INT Workshop on Fundamental Neutron Physics.
University of Washington
October 2006 Study of Events with One or Two Charmed Baryons APS Division of
Particles and Fields. Honolulu, Hawaii
October 2005 C Quark Fragmentation and Search for Popcorn Mesons at BaBar
LPNHE Seminar (High Energy and Nuclear Physics Lab)
University of Paris
June 2005 C Quark Fragmentation and Search for Popcorn Mesons at BaBar
High Energy Physics Seminar – University of California, Riverside
Awards
October 2006 Best Postdoctoral Experimental Research – California Section of the
American Physical Society $500
2003-2004 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship $15,000
2000-2001 UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Fellowship $13,000