Brandon Hartfiel



Dr. Brandon Hartfiel, PhD

Louisiana State University

Department of Physics and Astronomy

202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Dr.

Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001

hartfiel@phys.lsu.edu

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Education

2005 PhD. in Physics – University of California, Los Angeles GPA - 3.78/4

Teaching Evaluation - 7.7/9, Qualifying Exam Rank - 6th out of 24

Thesis Search for Popcorn Mesons in Events with Two Charmed Baryons

2000 Maitrise Physique – Universite de Paris XI – Mention Bien (Honors).

In exchange with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. GPA – 5.1/6

Electives - VLSI Analog Circuits, Neuroinformatics, Quantum Computers

1999 Licence de Physique - Universite de Paris XI – Mention Assez Bien

1992 B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Texas at Austin

Graduated in 3½ years with honors.

Work Experience

8/2007 -Present Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University.

Scintillator and photosensor testing for T2K neutrino

oscillation experiment. Supervised Master's Thesis work

of Kevin McBryde and 2-3 undergraduates/semester.

6/2006 – 7/2007 Research Associate at California State University –

Dominguez Hills. Neutron – Antineutron Oscillation upper limit

measurement at Super-Kamiokande.

9/2005 – 2/2006 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris VI, continuing

work on the BaBar experiment.

2001- 2005 Research Assistant – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center –

Operational commissioner of the BaBar Cherenkov Detector

(DIRC). Created particle identification algorithms using the DIRC.

Measured the ΛC continuum momentum spectrum and the number

of popcorn mesons formed between ΛC ΛC _bar pairs.

7/1999- 8/1999 Research Assistant – Universite de Paris XI, Department of

Physical Chemistry–Hartree-Foch computer simulations of

calcium clusters.

1994-1998 Accountant – Partners Title Company

Teaching Experience

Spring 2007 Cal State Dominguez Hills, Physical Science Lab for Teachers.

1 Section. Evaluation 79% Strongly Agreed I was effective.

Spring 2005 UCLA, Honors Physics Discussion for Scientists and Engineers:

Electrodynamics, Optics and Special Relativity. 1 Section. Evaluation 8.0/9.0

Spring 2001 UCLA, Physics Lab for Life Science Majors: Light, Fluids,

Thermodynamics and Modern Physics. 3 Sections. Evaluation 7.6/9.0

Substitute Lecture for Algebra Based Physics - Gravity

Papers

Inclusive Λc Production in e+ e - Annihilations at sqrt{s}=10.54 GeV and in Υ(4S)

Decays

Phys. Rev D 75, 012003 (2007)

The DIRC Particle Identification System for the BaBar Experiment

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A538:281-357, 2005 SLAC-PUB-10516

UCLA space-time area law model: A Persuasive foundation for hadronization.

Eur.Phys.J.C49:569-580,2007

Identified Hadron Production at SLD and BaBar. Eur.Phys.J.C33 S572-574,2004



Coauthor of 196 papers by the BaBar Collaboration

Coauthor of 2 papers by the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration

Presentations

July 2007 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at Super Kamiokande I

TRIUMF Seminar. Vancouver Canada

May 2007 Search for Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations at Super Kamiokande I

INT Workshop on Fundamental Neutron Physics.

University of Washington

October 2006 Study of Events with One or Two Charmed Baryons APS Division of

Particles and Fields. Honolulu, Hawaii

October 2005 C Quark Fragmentation and Search for Popcorn Mesons at BaBar

LPNHE Seminar (High Energy and Nuclear Physics Lab)

University of Paris

June 2005 C Quark Fragmentation and Search for Popcorn Mesons at BaBar

High Energy Physics Seminar – University of California, Riverside

Awards

October 2006 Best Postdoctoral Experimental Research – California Section of the

American Physical Society $500

2003-2004 UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship $15,000

2000-2001 UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Fellowship $13,000

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