G4CMP: Condensed Matter Physics Simulation Using the Geant4 Toolkit
M.H. Kelsey et al., "G4CMP: Condensed Matter Physics Simulation Using the Geant4 Toolkit," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1055, 168473 (2023).
doi:10.1016/j.nima.2023.168473 , arXiv:2302.05998
- Professor
- Email: toback@tamu.edu
- Office: MIST M425 (main office)
- Document: CV
- Toback's Research Website
Research Areas
- Dark Matter
- The Standard Model & Search for New Particles
Biography
Dr. David Toback is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the Mitchell Institute at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Thaman Professor for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. Prof. Toback received his B.S. in physics from M.I.T. in 1991, his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997, and joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 2000. His area of specialization is Experimental Particle Physics and has focused on the search for new fundamental particles. This includes searches at the world's highest energy particle accelerators, with the CDF Experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron (outside Chicago, IL) and the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC (in Geneva, Switzerland), as well as deep underground with the CDMS experiment (currently in Minnesota and moving to Sudbury, Ontario Canada) to search for Dark Matter. The search for new particles is motivated in part by the tantalizing possibility of understanding the mysteries of particle physics, the earliest moments in the Universe after the Big Bang, and the existence of the Dark Matter that pervades the Universe today with a single discovery. He most of his time on the CDMS experiment, and continues to hold the role of co-spokesperson for the CDF experiment. He is the author of the book "Big Bang, Black Holes, No Math"
Research Team
- Mike Kelsey
- Derek Cranshaw
- Richard Lawrence
- Lei Zheng
- Iman Ataee Langroudy
- Rik Bhattacharyya
- Carter Eikenbary
- Nolan Tenpas
- Wade Lamberson
- Dylan Monteiro
- Jaime Cochran
- Emre Duvarci
- Haley Bertolet
Institutional Partnerships
News Highlights
- Bad Boy of Science YouTube Channel (Video – 4/14/2022): Is The Standard Model Done!? W Boson Mass Measurement (w Professor David Toback)
- BBC News (Video – 4/18/2022): BBC News (w Professor David Toback)
- W Mass at 7Sigma with the Standard Model News (4/2022 – Selected)
- US: AP News “Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists” (.pdf)
- UK: BBC “Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution “ (.pdf)
- Germany: Spiegel “A&M Old measurement data bring particle physics closer to a new model” (.pdf)
- TAMU/Texas A&M Today: “Scientists Achieve Most Precise Measure To Date Of W Boson Mass “ (.pdf)
- TAMU/College of Science: “CDF Collaboration at Fermilab Achieves Most Precise Measurement of W Boson Mass” (.pdf)
- Fermilab News Release (4/23/2019) “Chiarelli and Toback voted CDF co-spokespeople for remainder of collaboration activities “ (.pdf)
- Fermilab News Release (7/30/2019) “CDF, DZero experiments presented with prestigious European Physics Society prize” (.pdf)
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Texas A&M College of Science News Release (6/26/2018) “Texas A&M Physicist David Toback Elected to Third Term as CDF Co-Spokesperson “ (.pdf)
Awards & Honors
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (American Physical Society, 2015)
- Arthur J. and Wilhelmina D. Thaman Professor for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (Texas A&M University, 2012)
- Outstanding Science Communicator Award (2012)
- Teacher-Scholar Award (2011)
- Distinguished Teaching Award - University Level (2007)
Selected Publications
- Review of physics results from the Tevatron: Searches for new particles and interactions
D. Toback and L. Živković, "Review of physics results from the Tevatron: Searches for new particles and interactions," Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 30(06), 1541007 (2015).
doi:10.1142/S0217751X15410079 , arXiv:1409.4910 [hep-ex] - Projected sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment
R. Agnese et al. (SuperCDMS Collaboration), "Projected sensitivity of the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment," Phys. Rev. D 95, 082002 (2017).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.082002 , arXiv:1610.00006 [physics.ins-det] - Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron
T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration), "Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron," Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 042001 (2018).
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.042001 , arXiv:1709.04894 [hep-ex] - Cosmo-particle Searches for Supersymmetry at the Collider Detector at Fermilab
D. Toback, "Cosmo-particle Searches for Supersymmetry at the Collider Detector at Fermilab," Mod. Phys. Lett. A 24(38), 3063-3089 (2009).
doi:10.1142/S0217732309032290 , arXiv:0911.0880 [hep-ex] The level-1 trigger for the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB
J.S. Wilson et al., "The level-1 trigger for the SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB," J. Instrum. 17, P07010 (2022).
doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/07/P07010 , arXiv:2204.13002v2- High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector
T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration), "High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector," Science 376(6589), 170 (2022).
doi:10.1126/science.abk1781