Tomasz Skwarnicki

Professor of Physics

• Education:
  • Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (M.Sc. 1982)
  • DESY, Hamburg, Germany
    Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland (Ph.D. 1986)

• Positions held:
  • 1985-1987 Postdoc, DESY, Hamburg
  • 1988-1989 Postdoc, Syracuse University
  • 1989-1992 Assistant Professor
  • 1992 Visiting Scientist, SSC, Dallas
  • 1992-1995 Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
  • 1995-2000 Associate Professor, Syracuse University
  • 2000- Professor, Syracuse University

• Research:
  

  Primarily involved in beauty and charm quark experiments at e+e- (LENA, Crystal Ball at DORIS, DESY; CLEO at CESR, Cornell) and pp colliders (BTeV at Tevatron, Fermilab; LHCb at LHC, CERN). Also participated in the design of the GEM experiment for the SSC.

  His main areas of interest have been: b quark decays, heavy quark spectroscopy and tau lepton physics.

  Previously involved in construction of the muon detector for CLEO-II, RICH detector for CLEO-III, R&D for RICH detector for BTeV and trigger for LHCb. Presently involved in UT detector work for the the LHCb upgrade.

  Co-author of over 700 publications in experimental high energy physics. Reported at 60 international conferences. Presented 40 seminars and colloquia.

  Among the lead authors of following selected publications:

  • Measurement of tau decays involving eta mesons with the CLEO collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69 (1992) 3278.
  • First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b -> s gamma with the CLEO collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74 (1995) 2885.
  • Observation of B->phi K and B->phi K*. with the CLEO collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 3718.
  • First observation of a Upsilon(1D) state with the CLEO collaboration, Phys. Rev. D70 (2004) 032001.
  • Search for Very Light CP-odd Higgs Boson in Radiative Decays of Upsilon(1S) with the CLEO collaboration, Phys. rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 151802.
  • First observation of the decay Bc+ -> J/psi pi+pi-pi+ with the LHCb collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 251802.
  • Determination of the X(3872) meson quantum numebrs. with the LHCb collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 222001.
  • Observation of the resonant character of the Z(4430). with the LHCb collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 222002.
  • Observation of J/psi p resonances consistent with pentaquark states in Lambda_b^0 to J/psi K- p decays. with the LHCb collaboration, arXiv:1507.03414 submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.

  Award of the Counsel of Atomic Research in Poland for the thesis dissertation (1986).
  Recipient of the Outstanding Junior Investigator Grant from DOE and of the SSC Fellowship from TNRLC (1993).
  American Physical Society Fellow (2001-).
  Chancellor's Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction, Syracuse University, 2008.
  Honored as "Pole of The Year" at Polish Festival, Syracuse (2008).
  Member of Physics Advisory Committee for the Belle experiment, KEK, Japan (2007-2012).
  Distinguished Fellow of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry, Kosciuszko Foundation, 2014.
  His research is presently funded by National Science Foundation.

• Advised following graduate students:

  Pavel Zadorozhny, SMU, M.Sc. 1994; Gouheng Wei, SMU, M.Sc. 1995; Igor Volobouev, SMU, Ph.D. 1997; Vasilii Shelkov, SMU, Ph.D. 1997; Xing Xia, Syracuse, Ph.D. 1997; Erdenebayar Dambasuren, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2001; Konstantin Bukin, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2003; Hajime Muramatsu, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2004; Jamilla Butt, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2006; Nasra Sultana, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2008; Bin Gui, Syracuse, Ph.D. 2014; Thomas Britton, Nathan Jurik.