Craig Blocker
Degrees
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.University of California, Berkeley, M.A.
University of Nebraska, B.S.
Expertise
Experimental particle physics.Profile
Professor Craig Blocker does research in experimental elementary particle physics. Along with the other members of the Brandeis High Energy Physics group, he works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at the international particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The Higgs boson, discovered at the LHC in 2012, was the last piece of the Standard Model of particle physics. However, there are still unanswered questions in fundamental physics (such as, "What is dark matter?") and other compelling reasons to believe that there is more to particle physics than the Standard Model. His recent research has concentrated on trying to find possible clues to physics beyond the Standard Model.Courses Taught
| PHYS | 15b | Advanced Introductory Physics II |
| PHYS | 30a | Electromagnetism |
| PHYS | 31b | Quantum Theory II |
| PHYS | 91g | Introduction to Research Practice |
| PHYS | 102a | General Relativity |
| PHYS | 107b | Particle Physics |
| PHYS | 167b | Particle Phenomenology |
Scholarship
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisiions using prompt and displaced signatures with the ATLAS detector." JHEP 10. (2019): 265.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for lepton-flavor violation in different-flavor, high-mass dilepton final states suing 36 /fb of data from pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Phys. Rev. D 93. (2018): 092008.
Blocker, Craig A and ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for new phenomena in different-flavor dilepton final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Eur. Phys. J. C 76. (2017): 541.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector." New Journal of Physics 18. 7 (2016): 073021.
Blocker, Craig A. "Search for Lepton Flavor Violation with ATLAS." CLFV2016. Charlottesville, VA. June 22, 2016.
Blocker, Craig A. "LHC Lepton Flavor Violation - ATLAS." NuFact15. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. August 11, 2015.
Blocker, Craig A. LHC Lepton Flavor Violation - ATLAS. Proc. of NuFact15. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 2015.
Blocker, Craig A. and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to e-mu, e-tau, or mu-tau in pp Collisions at sqrt{s} = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector." Phys. Rev. Lett. 115. (2015): 031801.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to e-mu, e-tau, or mu-tau with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC." Phys. Lett. B 723. (2013): 15.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in the e-mu Continuum with the ATLAS Detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp Collisions at the LHC." Eur. Phys. Jour. C 72. (2012): 2056.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for excited leptons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Phys. Rev. D 85. (2012): 072003.
Blocker, Craig A and the ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for heavy neutrinos and right-handed W bosons in events with two leptons and jets in pp collilsions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Eur. Phys. Jour. C 72. (2012): 2056.
Blocker, Craig A, ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for a heavy neutral particle decayins into an electron and a muon using 1 fb^-1 of ATLAS data." Europen Physical Journal C 71. 12 (2011): 1809.
Blocker, Craig A, ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for a heavy particle decaying into an electron and a muon with the ATLAS detector in sqrt(s) = 7 TeV pp collisions at LHC." Phys. Rev. Lett. 106. 25 (2011): 25108.