Research Participation

Dr. Sivertz studies the heavy ion beam used at the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) to better understand the radiation field that travelers in space will encounter. Dr. Sivertz is a member of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope collaboration (LSST) interested in the study of both Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Education

Dr. Sivertz did his undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia and the University of Edinburgh He completed his PhD at SUNY Stony Brook. He served as Assistant Professor in the Physics Departments of Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Research Interests

Dr. Sivertz has conducted research on the fundamental questions of Elementary Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics. He has collaborated on the following experiments:

• LSST, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• KOPIO at BNL studying CP violation in the kaon system.
• PHENIX at RHIC searching for the quark-gluon plasma.
• CLEO at Cornell investigating heavy flavour physics.
• TPC/2γ at SLAC studying QCD via the two-photon interactions.
• SPACAL at CERN developing calorimeter designs.
• E-791 at BNL looking for lepton-flavour violation in kaon decays.
• CDF at FERMILAB preparing for the world's highest energy proton-antiproton collisions.
• CUSB at CESR discovering the Υ(4S) resonance of b-quarks.

Awards

Dr. Sivertz received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Department of Energy Office of Science Undergraduate Research Program in 2002 and 2005.

Selected Publications

This is a selection from a list of publications from 105 peer-reviewed journal articles, 18 instrumentation articles and 21 conference proceedings.   A CV with a complete list of publications is available here.

• THE NASA SPACE RADIATION LABORATORY AT BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY - PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF ION BEAMS FOR SPACE RADIATION RESEARCH, K. Brown et al., Published in Nucl. Inst. Meth. A51350, v.618 (2010)
• Editor for the LSST Science Book http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0912.0201 LSST Science Collaborations and LSST Project (2009), arXiv:0912.0201, http://www.lsst.org/lsst/scibook
• Interbunch Extinction measurement at the BNL AGS for the KOPIO Experiment.   L. Ahrens et al., Published in Nucl. Inst.Meth. A560:256-263, 2006.
• CENTRALITY DEPENDENCE OF DIRECT PHOTON PRODUCTION IN S(NN)**(1/ 2) = 200-GEV AU + AU COLLISIONS. By PHENIX Collaboration (S.S. Adler et al.). Mar 2005. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.94:232301,2005
• THE PIXEL READOUT SYSTEM FOR THE PHENIX PAD CHAMBERS. J. Barrette et al., Prepared for 14th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (QM 99), Torino, Italy, 10-15 May 1999. Published in Nucl.Phys.A661:665-668,1999
• COMPACT GAS CHERENKOV DETECTOR WITH NOVEL OPTICS. M. Sivertz (UC, San Diego), B.E. Berger, R.D. Ehrlich (Cornell U.,LNS), J. Bartelt, S.E. Csorna, V. Jain, S. Marka (Vanderbilt U.), K.Kinoshita, P. Pomianowski (Virginia Tech), Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A385:37-46,1997
• EVIDENCE FOR PENGUINS: FIRST OBSERVATION OF B ---> K* (892) GAMMA. By CLEO Collaboration (R. Ammar et al.). Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.71:674-678,1993
• MEASUREMENT OF THE BRANCHING RATIO FOR THE DECAY K0(L) ---> MU MU. C. Mathiazhagan et al. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.63:2185,1989
• THE CDF DETECTOR: AN OVERVIEW. By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.). Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A271:387-403,1988
• UPPER LIMIT FOR AXION PRODUCTION IN RADIATIVE UPSILON DECAY. M. Sivertz et al.. 1982. Published in Phys.Rev.D26:717-719,1982, Erratum-ibid.D26:2534,1982

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