Florida Institute of Technology
High Tech with a Human Touch
BAARMAND, Marc M.
Professor
Physics and Space Sciences Department, College of Science
Personal Overview
Florida Tech Faculty Senate President Elect, 2011, and President, 2012.
CMS Publication Committee member, 2011-present.
CMS Authorship Committee member, 2011-present.
Editorial Board member for Top Quark Physics in CMS, 2011-present.
Physics and Space Sciences Representative to Florida Tech Graduate Council, 2011-present.
Physics and Space Sciences Representative to Florida Tech Committee on Faculty Promotion, 2011-present.
Chair of Graduate Research and Academic Steering Panel, Florida Tech Physics and Space Sciences, 2010-present.
Recipient of Florida Tech Faculty Excellence Award in Research and President's Award, 2009.
Florida Tech Project Director for the CMS Experiment at CERN, 2001-present.
Florida Tech Representative to the CMS Collaboration Board, 2001-present.
DOE Principal Investigator for the CMS projects at Florida Tech, 2003-present.
Member of Election Committee for the US CMS Collaboration, 2005-2008.
Representative of the non-member-state countries to the CMS Management Board, 2003-06.
Member of Editorial Board for journal publications of CMS, 2002-06.
Florida Tech Advisory Board, Center for Distance Learning, 2003-05.
Florida Tech Faculty Senate, Dept. of Physics senator, 2002-05.
QuarkNet (HEP outreach program) mentor, Florida Tech, 2001-04.
DOE Co-Principal Investigator for D0 and CMS at SUNY-Stony Brook, 1992-98.
Editorial Board chairperson, b-quark physics, D0 Experiment at Fermilab, 1995-99.
Team leader/contact person, SUNY-Stony Brook, CMS Experiment at CERN, 1994-98.
Team leader/contact person, US Team, RD5 Experiment at CERN, 1992-94.
Educational Background
B.S. and M.S. degrees, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.
Professional Experience
Professor, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Tech (2005–present)
Associate professor, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Tech (2000–2004)
Assistant and visiting professor, Department of Physics, SUNY–Stony Brook (1991–1999)
Research scientist, Department of Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif. (1987–1990)
Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1987)
Current Research
Study of hadroproduction of bottom quark pairs in proton-proton collisions at LHC: Test of perturbative QCD.
Study of top quark spin by analyzing spin correlations in top quark pair production in proton-proton collisions at LHC.
Study of top quark spin in electroweak production of single top quarks in proton-proton collisions at LHC.
Search for a low mass charged Higgs boson in top quark decays at LHC.
Search for the Higgs boson at LHC.
Hadron Calorimetry in high energy physics experiments.
Selected Publications
Selected Recent Publications:
"Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC", S. Chatrchyan et al., submitted to Phys. Let. B, arXiv:1207.7235v1 [hep-ex] 31 Jul 2012. [Discovery of Higgs-like boson]
"Search for a light charged Higgs boson in top quark decays in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV", S. Chatrchyan et al., J. High Energy Phys. 07, 143 (2012).
"First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s =7 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Lett. B695, 424 (2011).
"Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s =7 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), J. High Energy Phys. 01, 080 (2011).
"Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp Collisions at √s =7 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 011801 (2011).
"Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at √s =7 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 262001 (2010).
"Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 211801 (2010).
"Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in pp Collisions at the LHC", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), J. High Energy Phys. 09, 091 (2010).
"CMS Tracking Performance Results from Early LHC Operation", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Eur. Phys. J. C70, 1165 (2010).
"First Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity at the LHC with √s =0.9 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Eur. Phys. J. C70, 555 (2010).
"Measurement of the Charge Ratio of Atmospheric Muons with the CMS Detector", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Lett. B692, 83 (2010).
"Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s =7 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 022002 (2010).
"First Measurement of Bose-Einstein Correlations in pp Collisions at √s =0.9 and 2.36 TeV at the LHC", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 032001 (2010).
"Transverse Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hardons in pp Collisions at √s =0.9 and 2.36 TeV", V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Coll.), J. High Energy Phys. 02, 041 (2010).
"Design, Performance and Calibration of CMS Hadron-Barrel Calorimeter Wedges", G. Baiatian et al., European Physics Journal C55, 159-171 (2008).
"Design, Performance and Calibration of CMS Forward Calorimeter Wedges", G. Baiatian et al., European Physics Journal C53, 139-166 (2008).
"The CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC", S. Chatrchyan et al. (CMS Coll.), Journal of Instrum. 3, S08004 (2008).
"Spin Correlation in Top Quark Pair Production", M. Baarmand, H. Mermerkaya, I. Vodopiyanov, Journal of Physics G (Nuclear and Particle Physics), volume 34 number 6, 1223-1227 (2007).
"Charged Higgs Boson of MH < mt in Top Quark Pair Production", M. Baarmand, M. Hashemi, A. Nikitenko, Journal of Physics G (Nuclear and Particle Physics), volume 34 number 6, 1339-1344 (2007).