Tom Browder (University of Hawaii)

My research program is the BELLE experiment at KEK in Tsukuba, JAPAN.
This experiment studies CP Symmetry Violation in the B Meson System and Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model. Belle provided experimental confirmation of Kobayashi and Maskawa's explanation of CP violation in the weak interaction and was recognized in the citation for the 2008 Nobel prize in Physics , which was awarded to Kobayashi, Maskawa and Nambu. In addition, I am now deeply involved in the preparations for Belle-II, an experiment at the KEK Super B factory. I am also teaching undergraduate physics courses and supervising graduate students.

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  Belle Journal Publications

  Physics 480L: Modern Physics Lab, (Fall 2009)

  Physics 490: Particle Physics (Spring 2009)

  Physics 481L: Modern Physics Lab (Spring 2009)

  Physics 485: Ethics for Physicists (TBA)

  Physics 272: Electricity and Magnetism for Scientists and Engineers. (Fall 2007 edition)

  Joint Meeting of the Japan Physical Society (JPS) and Division of Particles and Fields (DPF)
  Meeting organized by the University of Hawaii

  Physics 310: Theoretical Mechanics I.

  Physics 311: Theoretical Mechanics II.

  Physics 170: Mechanics and Thermodynamics for Scientists and Engineers.

  Background Commissioning for Belle

  WWW and Physics for Students and Citzens (Physics Pedagogy)

  
  
  

  Publications and Preprints

  • The Status of the KEK Super B Factory T.E. Browder (To appear in Nuclear Physics B, the Proceedings of the 2nd Capri Workshop on Theory, Phenomenology and Experiments in Heavy Flavour Physics)

  • New Physics at a Super Flavor Factory T.E. Browder, T. Gershon, D. Pirjol, A. Soni and J. Zupan, hep-ph/0802.3201 (to appear in Reviews of Modern Physics)

  • On the Physics Case of a Super Flavour Factory T.E. Browder, M. Ciuchini, T. Gershon, M. Hazumi, T. Hurth, Y. Okada, A. Stocchi, hep-ph/0710.3799; published as JHEP0802: 110 (2008)

  • Accurate Measurements of the D^0-D^0bar Mixing Parameters N. Sinha, R. Sinha, T.E. Browder, N. G. Deshpande and S. Pakvasa, hep-ph/0708.0454, published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 99: 262002 (2007)

  • Why a Super B Factory is needed T.E. Browder, Proceedings of the 1st Capri Workshop on Theory, Phenemonology and Experiments in Heavy Flavor Physics (2006); published in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 163: 198 (2007)

  • Two topics in rare B decay T.E. Browder, Proceedings of the 1st Capri Workshop on Theory, Phenemonology and Experiments in Heavy Flavor Physics (2006); published in Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 163: 117 (2007).

  • Search for the h_c meson in B^+ ->h_c K^+ F. Fang, T.E. Browder et al. (Belle Collaboration), hep-ex/0605007, published in Physical Review D 74, 012007 (2006).

  • Search for New Physics at a Super B-factory T.E. Browder and A. Soni, hep-ph/0410192, published in Pramana 63, 1171-1194 (2004).

  • Prospects for Pentaquark Production at Meson Factories T.E. Browder, I. Klebanov and D. Marlow, hep-ph/0401115, Phys. Lett. B 587, 62 (2004).

  • Results on the CKM angle phi_1/beta T.E. Browder, hep-ex/0312024, published in Proceedings of the 2003 Lepton-Photon Symposium, World Scientific (2004).

  • Establishment of CP Violation in the B system T.E. Browder and R. Faccini, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol 53, p 353-386 (2003).

  • Experimental Summary of the FPCP03 (Flavor Physics and CP Violation) Conference, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FRANCE, June 2003. T.E. Browder, To appear in the Proceedings

  • Measurement of Branching Fraction Ratios and CP Asymmetries in B+- ->D_CP K^+- S.K. Swain, T.E. Browder et al. (Belle Collaboration) hep-ex/0304032, published in PRD 68, 051101 (2003)

  • Comment on the new D_s^{(*)} pi^0 Resonances T.E. Browder, A Petrov, S. Pakvasa, hep-ph/0307054, Phys. Lett. B 578, 365 (2004)

  • Rare Decays T.E. Browder, Proceedings of the SLAC Summer Institute, Stanford, CA (2002).

  • Results on sin 2 phi_1 (alpha) from the B Factories T.E. Browder, Proceedings of the XXII Physics in Collision Conference, Stanford, CA (2002). Also available as SLAC-R-607

  • Measurement of the B0-B0bar Mixing Rate with B0(B0bar)-->D*+ pi- partial reconstruction (by Y. H. Zheng, T.E. Browder et al (Belle Collaboration), hep-ex/0211065, Phys. Rev. D 67, 092004 (2003))

  • Measurement of B+->eta_c K^(*) Branching Fractions by F. Fang, T. Hojo, T.E. Browder and M. Hazumi (Belle Collaboration), hep-ex/0208047, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 071801 (2003))

  • Observation of B+->p pbar K+ by T.E. Browder, F. Fang, C.H Huang, M.Z. Wang (Belle Collaboration), published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 88: 181803 (2002))

  • Results on CP Violation from Belle, by T. E. Browder, hep-ex/0112026, published in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics, AIP 2001

  • Physics at the B Factories, hep-ex/0112027 by T. E. Browder, published in Proceedings of from the Smallest to the Largest Distances, held in Moscow, Russia, May 2001, in Surveys of High Energy Physics published by Gordon and Breach

  • Measuring beta in B ---> D(*)+ D(*)- K(S) Decays. by T.E. Browder, A. Datta, P.J. O'Donnell, S. Pakvasa. UH-511-930-99, hep-ph/9905425 (Published in Phys. Rev. D. 61, 054009)

  • Summary of KEK-B Commissioning (by K. Oide et al)

  • Observation of High Momentum B->eta' Decays (by T.E. Browder and Y. Li, hep-ex/9804018, published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 81: 1786 (1998))

  • Hadronic B Decays (by T.E. Browder, UH-511-890-97, Published in Proceedings of the 1997 Santa Barbara Heavy Flavors Workshop)

  • Overview of the Workshop on Backgrounds at the Machine-Detector Interface (by T.E. Browder and S. K. Sahu, Proceedings of the 1997 Hawaii Workshop on Backgrounds at the Machine-Detector Interface)

  • Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Backgrounds at the Machine-Detector Interface (Edited by T.E. Browder and S. K. Sahu, published by World Scientific)

  • Observation of Quasi-Inclusive B->eta' X_s Decays. (by T.E. Browder, Y. Li, (CLEO Collaboration), CLEO CONF 97-13, now published in Phys. Rev. Lett 81:1786 (1998))

  • CP Violation in Quasi-Inclusive B->K(*) X Decay (by T.E. Browder, A. Datta, X-G. He, and S. Pakavasa, Physical Review D 57, 6828 (1998).)

  • Search for b->s gluon from Inclusive B Decays to Etaprime and Ks. (CLEO CONF 96-18, by F. Li, Y. Li and T.E. Browder, submitted to the Warsaw ICHEP and DPF Conferences)

  • Measurement of B->phi X (CLEO CONF 95-3, by T.E. Browder, submitted to the EPS and LEPTON-PHOTON Conferences)

  • Search for B->phi X_s from b->s gluon transitions (CLEO CONF 95-8, by T.E. Browder and T. Skwarnicki, submitted to the EPS and LEPTON-PHOTON Conferences)

  • B Mesons: Review of B Physics (Published in Vol 35. of Progress in Nuclear and Particle Physics) (by T.E. Browder and K. Honscheid)

  • Hadronic Decays and Lifetimes of B and D Hadrons (UH-511-857-96, Proceedings of the 1996 ICHEP Conference in Warsaw, World Scientific.) (by T.E. Browder)

  • Results on QCD from the CLEO II Experiment (UH-511-862-96, Proceedings of the 1996 ICHEP Conference in Warsaw, World Scientific.) (by T.E. Browder)

  • Hadronic Decays of B Mesons (UH-511-863-96, Proceedings of the IInd International Conference on Radiative Corrections in Cracow, Poland) (by T.E. Browder)

  • B Factories and New Ideas for CP Violation (Proceedings of WHEPP4 Conference in Calcutta, India) (by T.E. Browder)

  • Rare and Hadronic B Decays (UH-511-836-95, Proceedings of the 1995 Brussels Europhysics Conference) (by T.E. Browder)

  • Lifetimes and Hadronic Decays of Charm and Beauty Hadrons (UH-515-848-96, published in the 1996 Edition of Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science) (by T.E. Browder, K. Honscheid and D. Pedrini)

  • Exclusive Hadronic B Decays to Charm and Charmonium Final States published as M. S. Alam et al., PRD 50, 43, (1994); (by T.E. Browder, K. Honscheid, J. Rodriguez et al)

  • Observation of $D^0\to K^+\pi^-$ published as D. Cinabro et al, PRL 72, 1406 (1994); (by T. E. Browder, T. Liu, H. Yamamoto et al)

  • B_s mixing and |V_ts/V_td| (by T.E. Browder and S. Pakvasa, PRD 52, 3123, 1995)

  • Experimental Implications of CP Violation and Large FSI in the Search for D0-D0bar Mixing (by T.E. Browder and S. Pakvasa, PLB 383, 475 (1996).)

  • Search for the $eta_c^{'}$ in 2 Photon Processes (by T. Barnes, T.E. Browder and S.F. Tuan, PLB 385, 391 (1996).)

    
    
    
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