Columbia at D0

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Columbia at D0

• Group
• 3 Faculty
• Hal Evans, John Parsons, Mike Tuts
• 3 postdocs
• Leslie Groer, Christos Leonidopolous, Georg
  Steinbruck
• 5 students
• Tulika Bose, Shaohua Fu, Mingcheng Gao, Chris
  Hays, Burair Kothari
• D0 Status
• Detector rolled in March 1, 2001
• All detectors installed
• Electronics final production/installation
• Commissioning underway
• Physics quality data expected before the end of
  the year

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Status

• Columbia contributions
• Calorimeter electronics (60k preamps)
• Tuts, Groer, Fu, Gao, Hays
• Installed and being debugged
• L2 muon trigger (SLIC)
• Evans, Leonidopoulos, Kothari
• Delivered and being commissioned
• Silicon track trigger (STT)
• Evans, Steinbruck, Bose
• Prototyping
• Physics
• Evans B physics convener
• Parsons missing Et working group leader in
  Top/Higgs group
• Hays leptoquark search in 2 jets missing Et
  (Run I)
• Fu Run II leptoquark search
• Gao Z search
• Steinbruck, Kothari, Bose B physics

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Plans

• 2001
• Commissioning of calorimeter electronics, L2
  trigger SLICS
• Prototyping and production of STT
• Start of physics analyses
• Planning for Run IIb (2003)
• Interests in trigger, cal not defined yet
• 2002
• Running and analysis
• Production and commissioning of STT
• Run IIb development
• 2003
• Running and data analysis (2fb-1)
• Production of Run IIb contribution