Dmitri Denisov

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Nuclear and Particle Physics
Bldg. 510F
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-6212
(631) 566-7531
denisovd@bnl.gov

Appointments | Highlights | Awards

Professional Appointments

Before coming to Brookhaven Lab, Denisov spent 25 years at Fermilab. He’s well known for serving as the spokesperson for the DZero experiment, which used Fermilab’s Tevatron collider to study the interactions of protons and antiprotons. The DZero collaboration, together with CDF collaboration, is credited with discovering and studying the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known, and was awarded the European Physical Society prize for these efforts. Strong contributions from Brookhaven’s DZero group were critical for the success of the experiment.

Research Highlights

Denisov a worldwide expert in the particle physics experiments. He joined the DZero collaboration in 1987 and helped built a large, complex particle detector to study the world’s highest-energy collisions of protons and antiprotons at the Tevatron. In 1995, he played major role in Tevatron’s discovery of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle. In the late 1990s, his research led to the precise measurements of bottom-quark production across a wide kinematic region, which led to advances in the theoretical explanation of this process. Denisov oversaw major part of the upgrade of the DZero detector in time for the start of Tevatron second run, which began in 2001. He led successful commissioning of the DZero experiment and readied it for physics data collection. From 2004 to 2006, he was the leader of the electroweak physics group of the experiment, leading studies of the production and properties of electroweak force carriers known as W and Z bosons.  In 2006, Denisov was elected spokesperson of the DZero collaboration, which comprises over 500 physicists from 20 countries. He has led the collaboration to many exciting scientific results, including the discovery of new heavy baryons containing bottom quarks, the highest-precision measurements of the W boson and top quark masses, searches for a wide spectrum of new subatomic phenomena predicted by theoretical models, and extensive hunt and then studies of the Higgs boson. The DZero collaboration published more than 300 papers during his term. Recently Denisov is involved in developing physics program, accelerators and detectors for future high energy colliders.

Awards & Recognition

Dmitri is APS and AAAS fellow and chairs and serves on multiple international and domestic advisotry and review boards. He is reviewer for numerous peer review journals including PRL, PRD, NIM, and many others.