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University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Ellison, John

Professor of Physics
Vice Chair of Physics

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Physics and Astronomy


Biography

John Ellison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College, University of London in 1987, and moved to UC Riverside in 1989 where he is now Associate Professor. His specialties include measurements of the properties of the electroweak gauge bosons, the mediators of the electroweak force. He is known for measurements of the self-interactions of the W and Z bosons using the D-Zero detector at Fermilab, and has served as convener of the D-Zero electroweak physics group. He has also worked for many years in the area of silicon particle detector development in particle physics. His other interests include heavy quark physics, particularly the study of the bottom and top quarks.

Former Institution

 Imperial College, University of London

Degrees

BS Physics 1983

University of Southampton, UK

DIC High Energy Physics 1987

Imperial College, University of London

PhD Physics 1987

Imperial College, University of London

Awards

Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (1993-97)
SERC Fellowship 1987


Research Area

Measurements of the properties of the electroweak gauge bosons, Self-interactions of the W and Z bosons using the D-Zero detector at Fermilab. Silicon particle detector development in particle physics. Heavy quark physics, particularly the study of the bottom and top quarks.

Publications

Measurement of the WWgamma Gauge Boson Couplings in pbarp Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.8 TeV, Physical Review Letters 75 (1995) 1034.

Study of Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings at the Tevatron Collider, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 48 (1998) 33.