Christos Touramanis in BaBar
BaBar member since 1997 - Liverpool P.I. since October 2001
Activities in BABAR (older items last)
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Physics, reconstruction, analysis
- Charmless B Decays and alpha: analysis of B to rhorho (since Sept. 2002)
- Charmonium and sin2beta (up to end 2002)
- Dileptons and B mixing (1999 - 2001)
- Development of the reconstruction of Kshort 2pi0 decays; observation of
the B0->JpsiKs(Ks->pi0pi0) CP eigenstate, 1998-2000
- Development of the BABAR Luminosity measurement, 2000
- Observation of the first
mass peak (pi0) in BABAR data, May 1999
Positions of responsibility
- Member of the Computing Coordinator search committee, 2004
- Member of the BABAR Speakers Bureau, 2002 - 04
- chair: Sept. 03 - March 04
- deputy chair: April 03 - Aug. 04
- Member of the BABAR Publications Board (ex-oficio), Sept. 03 - March 04
- Member of the Physics Advisory Group, 2003-04
- Member of the "Roadmap Committee", 2004
- Member of the Steering Committee of the "10^36 Study Group", 2002-2003
- Member of the BABAR Task Force on Long-Term Upgrades, 2002
- Convener of the Charmonium Analysis Working Group,
March 2001 - Jan. 2003
- Convener of the Neutral Analysis Group, Oct. 1999 - March 2001
- Responsible for the Luminosity measurement since August 2000
Publications Review (review committees)
- RC #138: Branching Fraction and time-dependent CP measurments in B0 to K+K-Ks and KsKsKs [hep-ex 0408065, hep-ex 0408076]
- RC #137: Observation of the B meson decay to a1(1260)pi [hep-ex 0408021]
- RC #116: Inclusive charm production in B decays [hep-ex 0408113]
- RC #1: sin2beta
[PRD 66, 032003 (2002); PRL 89, 201802 (2002); PRL 90, 221 (2003)]
- RC #25: B->D(*)D(*)K [hep-ex 0107056]
Short term review/advisory committees
- Photon and pi0 efficiency, 2002
- Tracking Efficiency review, 2001
Software
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Author and package coordinator of BetaLumi
, the BABAR offline luminosity package (2000)
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Package coordinator of EmcLumi
, the first BABAR luminosity package (2000-2001)
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Author of the special Kshort->pi0pi0 vertexer
and selector
and its implementation in the reconstruction
of B0->JpsiKs (2000)
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Responsible for pi0 and Ks sequences in production (package
CompositionSequences)
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1998-99 : original version of Emc online monitoring, original
version of tautau selection in 1-1 and 3-1 decays, first simulation studies
of B->JpsiKlong reconstruction using the calorimeter for Klong identification
BABAR Documentation
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Primary editor, Babar Analysis Document #229
: Luminosity measurement on the RUN 1 data
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Editor, Babar Analysis Document #535
: Update of the luminosity measurement using series 10 reprocessed data from run I and run II and SP4 Monte Carlo
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Primary editor, Babar Analysis Document #20
: Reconstruction of pi0 in BABAR
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Co-author, BAD #196
: Study of pi0 reconstruction efficiency on RUN 1 data using tautau 1-on-1 decays
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Editor, BAD #198
: (PRD publication) Measurement of Branching Fractions for Exclusive B decays to Charmonium Final States
[PRD 65, 032001 (2002)]
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Co-author, BAD #113
and #12
: Measurement of exclusive charmonium branching ratios
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Editor, BAD #275
: (PRL draft) Study of T and CP Violations in B0 B0bar Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events
approach [PRL 88, 231801 (2002)]
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Editor, BAD #247
: (Conf. contribution) Study of T(CP) Violation in the Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events
approach [hep-ex 0107059]
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Editor, BAD #199
: Study of CP, T and CPT Violations in the Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events
approach
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Editor, BAD #260
: A Precise Measurement of Dmd with Inclusive Dilepton Events
approach
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Editor, BAD #28
: Measurement of the mixing parameter Delta_m with an inclusive dilepton
approach
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Editor, BAD #74
: (Conf. contribution) Measurement of the time dependence of B0B0bar oscillations using inclusive
dilepton events [hep-ex 0008054]
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Author of the section on neutral reconstruction in BAD
#45
: The first year of the BaBar experiment at PEP-II [hep-ex 0012042]
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Co-author, BAD #102
: The BaBar Vertexing
BABAR computing in the UK
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Member of the management group for the successful JREI and
JIF bids of BABAR-UK (1998-2001) and the GRID bid, to be submitted to the
PPARC e-science initiative soon (2001)
Hardware
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CsI(Tl) crystal light yield measurements and QA during the
EMC endcap construction at Liverpool, 1997-98
Conference talks
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Nuclear and Particle Physics Division Conference, IOP Annual Congress, Brighton,
April 2002: Physics from BABAR and BELLE
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Euro-GDR Supersymmetry general meeting, IPPP, Durham, April 2002: Flavour
studies at present and future B Factories
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HEP2001 Meting, European Physical Society, Budapest, July 2001:
Observation of CP Violation in the B0 system
(pdf)
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5th Intrenational Symposium on Radiative Corrections, Carmel, September 2000:
Physics at BABAR
(pdf)