Resume

David Atwood

Personal Information

Name:

David Malcolm Atwood

Address:

: Department of Physics and Astronomy,
: Iowa State University,
: Ames IA 50014

Telephone:

(515)294-6996

Fax:

(515)294-3747

E-Mail:

atwood@iastate.edu

Web Page:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/ $\sim$ atwood/

Education

Ph.D.

: Physics, Mc Gill University, August 1989.
: Thesis: Finding the Missing Pieces of the Standard Model.
: Advisor: Professor A. P. Contogouris

M.Sc.

: Physics, Mc Gill University, September 1986.
: Thesis: Scalar Quark Production in Electron-Positron Collisions.
: Advisor: Professor A. P. Contogouris

B.Sc.

: Honors Program in Physics and Mathematics, University of Toronto, May 1984.

Employment

1997 August - Present

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Temporary Assistant Professor


: Full Time Research and Teaching position in elementary particle physics.

1995 October - 1997 August

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF, formerly CEBAF), Research Associate.


: Postdoctoral research in elementary particle physics.

1992 October - 1995 October

SLAC, Research Associate.


: Postdoctoral research in elementary particle physics.

1989 September - 1992 September

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Research Associate.


: Postdoctoral research in elementary particle physics.

1984 September - 1989 September

Mc Gill University, Department of Physics, Research Assistant.


: Graduate research in elementary particles physics.

1984 September - 1989 September

Mc Gill University, Department of Physics, Teaching Assistant.


: Marking advanced undergraduate courses in Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Particle Physics.

1981 - 1983

University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Summer Student.


: Monte Carlo event generation for the ARGUS experiment; Event reconstruction for the Fermilab E531 experiment; Construction of a cosmic ray muon polarimeter.

Teaching Experience

Fall 1998 - Fall 2000

Physics 101--Physics for the Non-Scientist

: Iowa State University

: For the last five terms, I have taught this introductory course of 60-120 students. The students in this course form a diverse mix of students from Business, Athletics, Education and other majors. In this survey course I cover Classical Physics, Electromagnetism, Waves and Light, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity.

Fall 1997 - Spring 1998

Physics 221 -- Introduction to Classical Physics I

: Iowa State University

: I led two recitation and laboratory sections each term of about 20 students each.

June 1996

Hampton University Graduate Summer School

: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

: A series of four lectures on CP violation for Graduate Students.

1984 - 1989

Teaching Assistantship

: McGill University

: Graduate teaching assistantship at McGill University Department of Physics leading undergraduate laboratory sections and marking advanced undergraduate courses in Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Particle Physics.

Awards

Governor General's Gold Medal

June 1990:

: A gold medal awarded annually by the Governor General of Canada to one person from each Canadian University for postgraduate achievement.

Scholarships and Fellowships

SSC Fellowship

: 1992 October -1993 October at SLAC:
: $43000 awarded by the SSC Laboratory one year of Postdoctoral Research.

NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship

: 1989 September-1991 September at Brookhaven National Laboratory:
: $50000 awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada for two years of Postdoctoral Research.

McGill University Major Fellowship

: 1988 September-1989 August at Mc Gill University:
: $8000 awarded by Mc Gill University for one year of postgraduate studies.

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship

: 1986 September-1988 September at Mc Gill University:
: $24000 awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada for two years of postgraduate studies.

Carl Reinhardt Fellowship

: 1984 September-1985 May at Mc Gill University:
: $5000 awarded by the Department of Physics, Mc Gill University for eight months of postgraduate work.

NSERC Undergraduate Research Award

: 1983 May-1983 September at DESY Hamburg Germany with the University of Toronto:
: $3500 awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada for a summer program of undergraduate studies.

Publications Refereed Journals

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, CP Asymmetry Measurements in psi-K0 and The CKM Paradigm, hep-ph/0103197 (Submitted to Phys. Lett. B).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom, G. Eilam and A. Soni, CP Violation in Top Physics, hep-ph/0006032, (To appear in Physics Reports).

: D. Atwood, I. Dunietz and A. Soni, Improved Methods for Observing CP Violation in B+- $\to$ K D and Measuring The CKM Phase $\gamma$ , Phys. Rev. D63, 036005 (2001).

: D. Atwood, C. P. Burgess, E. Filotas, F. Leblond, D. London and I. Maksymyk, Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions are Small and/or Numerous, Phys. Rev. D63, 025007 (2001).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom and A. Soni, Dijet Production at Hadron Colliders in Theories with Large Extra Dimension, Phys. Rev. D62, 056008 (2000).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom and A. Soni, Graviton Production by Two Photon and Electron Photon Processes in Kaluza-Klein Theories With Large Extra Dimensions, Phys. Rev. D61, 116011 (2000).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom and A. Soni, Gauge boson-Gauge Boson Scattering in Theories With Large Extra Dimensions, Phys. Rev. D61, 054003 (2000).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, General Analysis of B Decays to Two Pseudoscalars for Electro-Weak Penguins, Rescattering and Color Suppression Effects, Phys. Lett. B466, 326 (1999).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, Extracting Information on CKM Phases, ElectroWeak Penguins and New Physics From B $\to$ V V Decays, Phys. Rev. D59, 013007 (1999).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, The Possibility of Large Direct CP Violation in B $\to$ K pi - Like Modes Due to Long Distance Rescattering Effects and Implications For The Angle Gamma, Phys. Rev. D58, 036005 (1998).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, Two Body Decays of The b-Quark: Applications to Direct CP Violation, Searches for ElectroWeak Penguins and New Physics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3324 (1998).

: S. Bar-Shalom, D. Atwood and A. Soni, CP Violation in Single top Production and Decay via $p\bar p\to t\bar b X\to W^+ b \bar b X$ within the MSSM, Phys. Rev. D57, 1495 (1998).

: S. Bar-Shalom, D. Atwood and A. Soni, Two Higgs Doublet models and CP Violating Higgs Exchange in $e^+e^-\to t\bar t Z$ , Phys Lett. B419, 340 (1998)

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, $B\to \eta^\prime+X$ and The QCD Anomaly, Phys. Lett B405, 150 (1997).

: D. Atwood, M. Gronau and A. Soni, Mixing Induced CP Asymmetries in Radiative Decays in and Beyond The Standard Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 185 (1997).

: D. Atwood, I. Dunietz and A. Soni, Enhanced CP Violation with $B^-\to K^- D^0(\overline D^0)$ Modes and Extraction of the CKM Angle $\gamma$ , Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 3257 (1997).

: D. Atwood, L. Reina, A. Soni, Phenomenology of Two Higgs Doublet Models With Flavor Changing Neutral Currents , Phys. Rev. D55, 3156 (1997).

: C. Kao, D. Atwood, A. Soni, Parity Violation in Bottom Quark Pair Production at Polarized Hadron Colliders , Phys. Lett. B395, 327 (1997).

: D. Atwood and M. Sher, $t\to c W^+W^-$ and $W^+W^-\to \bar t c$ and $t\bar c$ in Extended Models, Phys. Lett. B411, 306 (1997).

: D. Atwood, A. Soni, CP Conserving and CP Violating Asymmetries in $e^+e^-\to t\bar t \nu_e\bar\nu_e$ at The NLC: Application to Determining the Higgs Width , JLAB-THY-96-14; hep-ph/9607481 (1996).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom, A. Soni, CP Non-Conservation in $P\bar P\to t \bar b + X$ at The Tevatron , Phys. Rev. D54, 5412 (1996).

: D. Atwood, L. Reina, A. Soni, and in the Two Higgs Doublet Model With Flavor Changing Neutral Currents. , Phys. Rev. D54 3296 (1996).

: S. Bar-Shalom, D. Atwood, G. Eilam, R. Mendel and A. Soni, Large Tree Level CP violations in $e^+e^-\to t \bar t H^0$ in the two Higgs Doublet Model , Phys. Rev. D53, 1162 (1996).

: D. Atwood, L. Reina and A. Soni, Probing Flavor Changing Top-Charm-Scalar Interactions in collisions. , Phys. Rev. D53, 1199 (1996).

: D. Atwood, G. Eilam, A. Soni, Pure Leptonic Radiative Decays $B^\pm, D_s\to l \nu \gamma$ , Mod. Phys. Lett. A11, 1061 (1996).

: D. Atwood, S. Bar-Shalom, A. Soni, Dipole Moment Effects in $e^+ e^-\to Z\to b \bar b g$ with Polarized and Unpolarized Beams , Phys. Rev. D51, 1034 (1995).

: D. Atwood, L. Reina and A. Soni, Flavor Changing Neutral Scalar Currents at $\mu^+\mu^-$ Colliders , Phy. Rev. Lett. 75, 3800 (1995).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, Neutral Higgs CP Violation at $\mu^+\mu^-$ Colliders , Phys. Rev. D52, 6271 (1995).

: S. Bar-Shalom, D. Atwood, G. Eilam and A. Soni, CP Non-Conservation in $e^+e^-\to t \bar t g$ , Z. Phys C72, 79 (1996).

: D. Atwood, B. Blok and A. Soni, Feasibility of Extracting $V_{td}$ from Radiative () Decays. , Int. J. Mod. Phys. A11, 3743 (1996).

: D. Atwood, G. Eilam, M. Gronau and A. Soni Enhancement of CP Violation in $B\rightarrow K_i^\pm D_0$ by resonant effects , Phys. Lett B341, 372 (1995).

: D. Atwood, A. Kagan and T. Rizzo, Constraining Anomalous Top Quark Couplings at The Tevatron , Phys. Rev. D 52, 6264 (1995).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, CP Violation in $B^\pm\rightarrow \gamma \pi^\pm \pi^+ \pi^-$ , Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 220 (1995).

: D. Atwood, and A. Soni Influence of Kaonic Resonances on the CP Violation in $B\rightarrow K^*\gamma$ Like Processes, Z. Phys C64, 241 (1994).

: D. Atwood, G. Eilam, A. Soni, R. Mendel and R. Migneron, The Longitudinal Part of the Resonance W Boson Propagator, Phys. Rev. D49, 289 (1994).

: D. Atwood, G. Eilam and A. Soni Transverse $\tau$ Polarization in Decays of the Top and Bottom Quarks in the Weinberg Model of CP Violation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 492 (1993).

: D. Atwood, G. Eilam, A. Soni, R. Mendel and R. Migneron, CP Violation in Semileptonic Top Quarks in the Weinberg Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1364 (1993).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, Chiral Perturbation Theory Constraint on The Electric Dipole Moment of The $\Lambda$ -Hyperon, Phys Lett B291, 293 (1992).

: D. Atwood, A. Aeppli and A. Soni, Extracting Anomalous Gluon-Top Effective Couplings at the Supercolliders, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 2754 (1992).

: D. Atwood and A. Soni, Analysis for Magnetic Moment and Electric Dipole Moment of the Top Quark via $e^+e^-\rightarrow t\bar t$ , Phys. Rev. D45, 2405 (1992).

: D. Atwood, M. Dey, A. Soni, and P. Volkovitskii, An Examination of non- $B\bar B$ Decays of the $\Upsilon(4S)$ in Hybrid Models, Phys. Rev. D45, 233 (1992).

: A. P. Contogouris, S. Papadopoulos, and D. Atwood, Conventional versus Optimization Procedures and the Gluon Distribution, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (USSR) 87, 62 (1991).

: D. Atwood, C. P. Burgess, C. Hamzaoui, B. Irwin, and J. Robinson, Two Loop Fermion Electric Dipole Moments in Left-Right Models, Mc Gill Preprint MCGILL-90-24 (1990);

: D. Atwood, A. Soni, and D. Wyler, A Possible Mechanism for non- $B\bar B$ decays of the $\Upsilon(4S)$ , Phys. Rev. Lett 65, 2335 (1990).

: D. Atwood, C. P. Burgess, C. Hamzaoui, B. Irwin, and J. Robinson, One Loop and odd $W^\pm$ Electromagnetic Moments, Phys. Rev. D42, 3770 (1990).

: D. Atwood, W. J. Marciano, Radiative Corrections and Semileptonic B decays, Phys. Rev. D41, 1736 (1990).

: E. N. Argyres, D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, C. G. Papadopoulous, and S. D. P. Vlassopulos, Jet Signatures of Scalar Diquarks from Superstrings at Colliders, Phys. Lett. B237, 577 (1990).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, and K. Takeuchi, Production of the Intermediate Mass Higgs Boson in Future Electron Positron Colliders, Phys. Rev. D38, 3437(1988).

: A. P. Contogouris, N. Mebarki, D. Atwood and H. Tanaka, Bootstrapping a Heavy Higgs, Int. J. Mod. Phys. Lett. A3, 295 (1988).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, and H. Tanaka, Top Mass Determination in Hadron Colliders, Phys. Rev. D36, 1547 (1987).

: A. P. Contogouris, N. Mebarki, and D. Atwood, Dispersion Relations Approach for a Heavy Higgs, Mod. Phys. A2, 1075 (1987).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, and H. Tanaka, Top-Quark Mass Determination at LEP and SLC, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 2355 (1986).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, N. Mebarki and H. Tanaka, Higgs-Boson Production at or Near the Z Peak in Electron Positron Annihilation Phys. Rev. D34, 2648 (1986).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, H. Tanaka, and S. D. P. Vlassopoulos, Jets Plus Missing Momentum Events in Electron Positron Annihilation at the Z Peak, Phys. Rev. D33, 1260 (1986).

Theses

: D. Atwood, Finding the Missing Pieces of the Standard Model, Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1989).

: D. Atwood, Scalar-Quark Production in Electron Positron collisions, M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1986).

Talks at Conferences

: D. Atwood, CP Violation in Top Pair Production at $\gamma\gamma$ Colliders , Second International Workshop on High Energy Photon Colliders, Fermilab, Batavia IL (March 2001).

: D. Atwood, Strategies for The Determination of $\phi_3$ in $B^-\to D^0 K^-$ , BCP4 Conference, Isi-Shema , Japan (February 2001).

: D. Atwood, Upgrading Symmetric Machines to 5S? Beyond $10^{34}~~e^+e^-$ Workshop, Glen Arbor, MI (June 2000).

: D. Atwood, Determination of $\gamma$ in $B^-\to D^0 K^-$ and Related Processes, Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Quebec City, Canada (May 2000)

: D. Atwood, General Analysis of Decays to Two Pseudoscalars for EWP Rescattering and Color Suppression Effects , Division of Particles Meeting, LosAngeles CA, (January 1999).

: D. Atwood, Extracting $\gamma$ from CP Violation in $B^- \to K^- D^0$ , B Physics and CP Violation, Honolulu, HI (March 1998).

: D. Atwood New Methods for Extracting Gamma, BaBar Physics Workshop, Princeton University (March 1997).

: D. Atwood, A. Soni CP Violation in Top Physics at The NLC , 28'th International Conference on High-Energy Physics ICHEP96, Warsaw, Poland, (July 1996).

: D. Atwood, CP Violation and The Top Quark , Second International Workshop on Physics and Experiments with Linear Colliders, Waikoloa, Hawaii, (April 1993).

: D. Atwood, A. Soni CP Violating Effective Gluon-Top Quark Couplings , American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields, Fermilab, Batavia IL (November 1992).

: D. Atwood, U. Baur, D. Goddard, S. Godfrey, and B. A. Kniehl, W Production at ep Colliders in the process $e+p\rightarrow W^-\nu+X$ , Summer Study on Research Directions for the Decade, Snowmas, CO (June 1990).

: D. Atwood, C. P. Burgess, C. Hamzaoui, B. Irwin, and J. Robinson, Fermion Electric Dipole Moments at two Loops in Left-Right Models, Brookhaven Summer Study on CP Violation, Upton, NY (May 1990).

: D. Atwood, C. P. Burgess, M. Frank, C. Hamzaoui, B. Irwin, and J. Robinson, A Model Independent Analysis of CP Violation from New Physics: General Selection Rules and Leptonic EDM's, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei-89, Montreal Canada (May 1989).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, S. Papadopoulos, Conventional versus Optimization Procedures and Large Direct Photon Production, Montreal-0 Rochester-0 Syracuse-0 Toronto Meeting, Syracuse, NY (May 1989).

: A. P. Contogouris, S. Papadopoulos, and D. Atwood, Direct Photon Production and Complete QCD Calculations at Physical Scales, 3rd Hellenic School on Elementary Particle Physics, Corfu, Greece (September 1989).

: D. Atwood, U. Baur, G. Couture, and D. Zeppenfeld, W Production in ep Collisions, Summer Study on High Energy Physics in The 1990's, Snowmas, Colorado (June 1988).

: D. Atwood and J. Robinson, Axigluon Production at HERA, Summer Study on High Energy Physics in The 1990's, Snowmas, Colorado (June 1988).

: D. Atwood, Detection of Intermediate Mass Higgs In the $\tau^+\tau^-$ Decay Mode, Workshop on Intermediate Mass and Non-minimal Higgs Bosons, University of California at Davis (January 1988).

: A. P. Contogouris, N. Mebarki, and D. Atwood, A Heavy Higgs in Dispersion Theory, International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Uppsala Sweden (July 1987).

: A. P. Contogouris, N. Mebarki, and D. Atwood, Dispersion Relations approach for Heavy Higgs, From Colliders to Supercolliders Workshop, Madison Wisconsin (July 1987).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, and H. Tanaka, Top Mass Determination in Electron Positron Events, Montreal-0 Rochester-0 Syracuse-0 Toronto Meeting, Montreal Canada (May 1986).

: D. Atwood, A. P. Contogouris, and H. Tanaka, Detection of the Top-Quark at LEP and SLC, Physics Simulations at High Energy, Madison Wisconsin (May 1986).

Recent Invited Talks

: The search for TeV scale Gravity , Seminar, McGill University, March 2000.

: TeV Scale Gravity in Collider Experiments , Seminar, Iowa State University, January 2000.

: TeV Scale Gravity In Collider Experiments , Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana Champain, October 1999.

: Gauge Boson Scattering in Theories With Large Extra Dimensions, Seminar, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, June 1999.

: Phenomenology of theories with TeV scale Gravity, Seminar, Brookhaven Labs, May 1999.

: Using Gauge Bosons to Produce Gravitons in Theories With Large Extra Dimensions, Seminar, Technion, Israel, May 1999.

: Mapping the Unitarity Triangle With Direct CP Violation in B Physics, Seminar, University of California at Riverside, March 1999.

: Alpha and Gamma, How to Capture the Big Angles of The Unitarity Triangle, Seminar, McGill University, November 1998.

: Measuring The Angles Gamma and Alpha: Next Week, Next Year and Next Decade, Seminar at Iowa State University, November 1998.

: Lepton number violation in top decay as a signal for R-parity violating SUSY, Thinkshop Meeting at FNAL, October 1998.

: CP Violation, The Standard Model and Beyond, Colloquium, Iowa State University, November 1997.

: CP Violation, The Standard Model and Beyond, Seminar, University of Chicago, April 1997.

: CP Violation, The Standard Model and Beyond, Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, April 1997.

: CP Violation, The Standard Model and Beyond, Colloquium, University of Arizona, April 1997.

: Extracting the Angle $\gamma$ from $B^- \to K^- D^0$ , Seminar, Cornell University, March 1997.

: Extracting the Angle $\gamma$ from $B^- \to K^- D^0$ , Seminar, Syracuse University, March 1997.

: CP Violation, The Standard Model and Beyond, Seminar, University of Virginia, Feb. 1997.