Contact Information
James. R. Bensinger
Abelson 312
(781) 736-2875
bensinger@brandeis.edu
James R. Bensinger
Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1970
James Bensinger is interested in interactions of fundamental particles at the highest possible energy. He participates in the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He has worked, with other members of the experimental high-energy physics group, on the development of the muon spectrometer including the design, construction and installation of the precision chambers and the alignment system for the endcap muon spectrometer. In the ATLAS experiment the forces between the basic particles of nature are studied and new fundamental particles are searched for.
Recent Ph.D. Students
Dana S. Partos (2001) "Measurement of the sqrt(s) Dependence of Isolated Direct Photon Production in ppbar Collisions". Present Position: CNA Corporation, Alexandria, VA
Sample of Recent Publications
"ATLAS Muon Endcap Alignment", J.R. Bensinger Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 150, 136-139 (2006).
"Reference Bars for the Alignment of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer", C. Amelung, J.R. Bensinger, et al., Nuclear Instruments and Methods A555, 36-47 (2005).
"The ATLAS Muon Alignment System," C. Amelung, et al., 1st LHC Detector Alignment Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 Sep 2006.
"High Precision Optical Instrumentation for Large Structures Position Monitoring: The BCAM System Applied to the CMS Magnet", J. Bensinger,et al., Proceedings of 9th International Workshop on Accelerator Alignment (IWAA 06), Menlo Park, California, 26-29 Sep 2006.
"The Optical Alignment System of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Endcaps", C. Amelung, et al., JINST 3:P11005, 2008.
"The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider", The ATLAS Collaboration, JINST 3:S08003, 2008.
"System test of the ATLAS muon spectrometer in the H8 beam at the CERN SPS", The ATLAS Muon Collaboration, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A593:232-254,2008. May 2008.
"Study of the ATLAS MDT spectrometer using high energy CERN combined test beam data", C. Adorisio, et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A598:400-415, 2009."Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics", The ATLAS Collaboration, Jan 2009. e-Print: arXiv:0901.0512.