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Arthur F. Garfinkel

Emeritus Professor of Physics

garfinke@purdue.edu
Office: Physics 370D
Telephone: (765) 494-5196
Fax: (765) 494-0706

B.A., Physics 1956 Columbia University
M.S., Physics 1958 Columbia University
Ph.D., Physics 1962 Columbia University

Research Interests

Current

Experimental particle physics involving analysis of data from the CDF experiment at Fermilab and preparations for the CMS experiment at the Cern LHC.

Previous Area(s)

Experimental particle physics; resonance production, neutrino interactions, electron positron collisions.

Research Activities

As a member of the CDF collaboration at Fermilab I am particularly interested in finding the optimal way to measure the mass of the top quark produced in proton anti-proton collisions at high energy. For the next few years Fermilab is the only place where this measurement can be made.

If the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator can be made to run with very high luminosity we may also have a chance to discover the Higgs particle if it exists and its mass is just above the limit set at CERN.

Teaching Interests

Fall 2004:Teaching physics 610 using the modern textbook "Classical Mechanics" by Jose and Saletan. It makes considerable use of the modern geometrical approach to classical mechanics, introducing the concepts of manifolds and differential forms.

Graduate Students

Current: none, but working with Purdue students on CDF
Former: Dr. R. Dixon (Fermilab), Dr. R. Holland, Dr. G. Radecky (Industry), Prof. J. Wilson (Univ. S. Carolina), Dr. S. Kuhlmann (Argonne), Prof. T. Hoffman (Oxford U.), Prof. M. Kruse (Duke U.), Dr. A. Hardman (Industry).

Awards and Honors

  • New York State Regent Scholarship, 1952-56
  • Chairman, APS Meeting, Washington, April 1975
  • Fulbright Research Travel Award, 1977-78
  • FNAL Users Executive Committee, 1987-89
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the "SSC at Fermilab" committee, 1988
  • Listed in "American Men and Women of Science Physical and Biological Sciences," Bowker Co., NY

Professional Experience

  • Professor of Physics, Purdue University, 1979-present
  • Exchange Professor of Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1977-78
  • Associate Professor of Physics, Purdue University, 1973-77
  • Assistant Professor of Physics, Purdue University, 1967-73
  • Project Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1964-67
  • Physicist, Research Establishment RISO, Denmark, 1962-64

Professional Activities

  • Member and ex-chairman of the CDF speakers committee
  • Review contract proposals for DOE and NSF
  • Physical Review Letters referee
  • Physics Department committees: James Lecture, Undergraduate committee and Service Courses committee.

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