Dean Hidas

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 744, Room 113
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3568
dhidas@bnl.gov

Preferred Gender Pronouns (PGPs): they, them

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

• Insertion Device design and simulation
• Synchrotron radiation simulation design and development
• High performance computing
• Scientific software development, parallelization, and machine learning
• Control systems and high precision motion control
• Measurement systems, electronics, and drivers
• Trigger systems and real-time data acquisition
• Undulator and monochromator fly scan synchronization and triggering
• Silicon and diamod sensors
• Technical coordination
• Large scale data analysis

Research Activities

Some current activities include:

• Insertion device design, magnetic modeling, and optimization.
• Development of code for calculation of synchrotron radiation (notably on 3D surfaces and from time dependent electromagnetic fields): OSCARS.
• Insertion device and monochromator real-time coordinated fly scanning and triggering for enhanced spectroscopic capabilities for NSLS-II.
• In-vacuum superconducting wiggler/undulator magnetic measurement system development.
• Key performance estimates for low emittance lattice upgrade scenarios.
• Emittance compensation / levelling of low emittance rings.
• Development of diamond and silicon pixel detector systems.

Education

• Ph.D. Duke University 2008:
  • Thesis: Search for Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to W-Boson Pairs in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
• B.S. University of California San Diego 2002

Professional Appointments

• 2023 - present: Sr. Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA
• 2020 - 2022: Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA
• 2017 - 2019: Associate Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA
• 2015 - 2016: Assistant Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY USA
• 2012 - 2015: Post Doctoral Associate (Rutgers University) / CERN Associate, CERN, Geneva CH
• 2009 - 2011: Post Doctoral Associate (at CERN), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ USA
• 2003 - 2008: Graduate Student Research Assistant (Duke University), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory on the CDF experiment, Batavia, IL USA
• 2002 - 2003: Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, Duke University, Durham, NC USA

Selected Publications

• Ayala E, CarreraJarrin E, Ahmed I, et al (2023) The Pixel Luminosity Telescope: a detector for luminosity measurement at CMS using silicon pixel sensors. The European Physical Journal C 83:. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11713-6
• Hidas D, Kiss AM, Rakitin M, et al (2022) High precision real-time insertion device and monochromator synchronization at NSLS-II. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 1031:166505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.166505
• Hidas D, Shaftan T, Tanabe T (2021) Emittance and energy spread compensation for current and future low emittance synchrotron light sources. Physical Review Accelerators and Beams. doi: 10.1103/physrevaccelbeams.24.081601
• Huang X, Nazaretski E, Xu W, Hidas D, Cordier M, Stripe B, Yun W, Chu YS (2020) Metrology of a Focusing Capillary Using Optical Ptychography. Sensors 20:6462. doi: 10.3390/s20226462
• Chubar O, Kitegi C, Chen-Wiegart Y-CK, Hidas D, Hidaka Y, Tanabe T, Williams G, Thieme J, Caswell T, Rakitin M, Wiegart L, Fluerasu A, Yang L, Chodankar S, Zhernenkov M (2018) Spectrum-Based Alignment of In-Vacuum Undulators in a Low-Emittance Storage Ring. Synchrotron Radiation News 31:4–8. doi: 10.1080/08940886.2018.1460173
• Tanabe T, Bassan H, Broadbent A, Cappadoro P, Escallier J, Harder D, Hetzel C, Hidas D, Kitegi C, Kosciuk B, Musardo M, Kirkland J (2017) Refurbishment of a used in-vacuum undulator from the National Synchrotron Light Source for the National Synchrotron Light Source-II ring. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 24:919–924. doi: 10.1107/s1600577517008852
• Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al. (2013) Search for pair-produced dijet resonances in four-jet final states inppcollisions ats=7  TeV. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.141802
• Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al. (2012) Search for three-jet resonances in pp collisions at s=7TeV. Physics Letters B 718:329–347. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.048
• Aaltonen T, Álvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, Anastassov A, et al. (2012) Measurement of theWZcross section and triple gauge couplings inpp¯collisions ats=1.96  TeV. Physical Review D. doi: 10.1103/physrevd.86.031104
• Chatrchyan S, Khachatryan V, Sirunyan AM, Tumasyan A, Adam W, et al. (2011) Search for Three-Jet Resonances inppCollisions ats=7  TeV. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.101801
• Aaltonen T, Adelman J, González BÁ, Amerio S, Amidei D, et al. (2010) Inclusive Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in theWWDecay Channel Using the CDF II Detector. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.061803
• Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Álvarez González B, Amerio S, Amidei D, et al. (2010) Measurement of theW+W−Production Cross Section and Search for AnomalousWWγandWWZCouplings inpp¯Collisions ats=1.96  TeV. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.104.201801
• HIDAS DA (2010) - High mass SM Higgs boson searches at CDF. Proceedings of XXth Hadron Collider Physics Symposium — PoS(HCP2009). doi: 10.22323/1.102.0078
• HIDAS D (2010) Searches for high mass Higgs at the Tevatron (WW(*) final states). Proceedings of European Physical Society Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP 2009). doi: 10.22323/1.084.0230
• Aaltonen T, Adelman J, Akimoto T, Albrow MG, Álvarez González B, et al. (2009) Search for a Higgs Boson Decaying to TwoWBosons at CDF. Physical Review Letters. doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.021802

Awards & Recognition

• 2020 DOE NVBL Certificate of Recognition for contributions to "Molecular Design and Analysis to Inform Therapeutics Related to Covid-19: Discovery and Optimization of Small-Molecule, Vaccine, and Antibody Therapeutics".
• 2019 BNL Spotlight Award "In recognition of exceptional job performance" for leading role in NSLS-II Accelerator Physics high performance computing cluster.
• 2018 BNL Spotlight Award "In recognition of exceptional job performance" for development of a 2D triggered flyscan for ptychography microscope.

• 2015 CMS Achievement Award (from the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment on the LHC at CERN) "For his leading role in the building of the Silicon Pixel Luminosity Telescope for CMS".