Dr. Brandon Hartfiel, PhD
Louisiana State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
hartfiel@phys.lsu.edu
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 C continuum momentum spectrum and the number
of popcorn mesons formed betweenC C _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 c Production in e+ e - Annihilations at sqrt{s}=10.54 GeV and in (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