I am an experimental high energy physics graduate student at Caltech. My advisor is Prof. Frank Porter. I am working on the BaBar experiment, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), as a member of the Caltech group.

If you are not a particle physicist, take a look at http://particleadventure.org/ to learn what high energy particle physics is about. For a lighter version, see http://quarkdance.org/ (not suitable for children over 12).

Projects

• The search for the decay modes B -> K ll and B -> K* ll at BaBar

  We have published a result, based on the BaBar run 1 data set, in Physical Review Letters, volume 88, 2002 [ PDF, PS ]. We have submitted a more recent result, based on a larger data set, to the ICHEP 2002 conference [ PDF, PS  ]. BaBar collaborators can access some internal information here.

• PyHEP - Python tools for high energy physics

See the PyHEP page at http://www.indetermi.net/pyhep for more information.

At Caltech

• email: samuel@caltech.edu
• telephone: 626-395-3697
• office: Lauritsen 369
• mail:
  mail stop 356/48
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena CA 91125

At SLAC

• email: samuel@slac.stanford.edu
• telephone: 650-926-5493
• office: Research Office Building room 107

At home

• email: alex@alexsamuel.net
• telephone: 323-662-1132
• address: [ directions ]
  720 N Hoover St
  Los Angeles CA 90029-3612
  

Please see my personal web page.