Robert Harr

Contact Information

e-mail: robert.harr@this university.edu
telephone:	+1-313-577-2677
dept. office:	+1-313-577-2720
fax:	+1-313-577-1056

Room 262

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Wayne State University

666 W. Hancock St.

Detroit, MI 48202

Campus Map

With restaurants indicated.

Outreach

Leader of Quarknet at WSU.
REU mentoring

Teaching

Winter 2017

Physics 6850: Advanced Laboratory

Fall 2016

Physics 8810: Particle Physics

Winter 2016

Physics 6850: Advanced Laboratory

Fall 2015

Sabbatic Leave

Winter 2015

Fall 2014

Winter 2014

Physics 6850: Advanced Laboratory

Fall 2013

Physics 2140: College Physics 2

Winter 2013

Physics 8810: Particle Physics

Fall 2012

Physics 2140: Quiz Section

Fall 2010

Winter 2010

Fall 2009

Winter 2009

Physics 7600: Electromagnetic Theory I

Winter 2008

Fall 2007

Winter 2007

Fall 2006

Winter 2006

Fall 2005

Winter 2005

Fall 2004

Fall 2003

Astronomy 2010: Descriptive Astronomy

Winter 2003

Fall 2002

Winter 2002

Physics 5620: Electronics and Electrical Measurements

Fall 2001

Astronomy 2010: Descriptive Astronomy

Winter 2001 schedule

Physics 5620: Electronics and Electrical Measurements

Fall 2000 schedule

Physics 2140: General Physics
Quiz sections, Physics 2180

Fall 1999

Physics 2130: General Physics
Quiz sections, Physics 2140

Winter 1999 schedule

Winter 1998

Physics 5200: Mechanical Phenomena
Quiz section, Physics 2140

Fall 1997

Physics 218, lecture and quiz section

Fall 1996

Physics 555

Research

Software for the endcap muon detector at CMS
Search for the Higgs boson at CDF
Search for the FCNC decay D⁰-->μ⁺μ^- at CDF with Edmund Berry, Ivan Furic, and Young-Kee Kim.
Search for the FCNC decays D⁺-->Pμ⁺μ^- at CDF with Scott Brunner and Bill Ashmanskas.
Search for the FCNC decay D⁰-->μ⁺μ^- at CDF with Bill Ashmanskas.
Construction of SVX2b for the CDF Run2b upgrade.
A search for the FCNC decay D⁰ to mu⁺mu^- at HERA-B with Jing-Ge Shiu.
Construction and operation of the HERA-B Muon Detector.

Service

Convener of the rare decay subgroup of the heavy flavor averaging group (HFAG)

Selected Publications

I. Abt et al. (HERA-B Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 596, 173 (2004).
D. Acosta et al. (CDF Collaboration), Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D⁰-->μ⁺μ^- in pp-bar collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 68, 091101R (2003).
I. Abt, et al. (HERA-B Collaboration), Inclusive V⁰ production cross sections from 920GeV fixed target proton nucleus collisions, Eur. Phys. Jour. C. 29 (2003 181-190.
I. Abt, et al. , J/ψ production via χ_c decays in 920GeV pA interactions, Phys. Lett. B. 561 (2003) 61-72.
I. Abt, et al. , Measurement of the bbbar Production Cross Section in 920 GeV Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Collisions, Eur. Phys. J. C 26 (2003) 345-355.
M. Danilov, et al. , A Gaseous Muon Detector at the HERA-B Experiment, submitted to IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Nov. 2000.
M. Buchler, et al. , Design and Operation of Front-End Electronics for the HERA-B Muon Detector , IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 46 (1999) 126-132.

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R. Harr, et al., Pseudorapidity Distribution of Charged Particles in PbarP Collisions at sqrt(s)=630 GeV, Physics Letters B 401, 176 (1997).

Tracking Detector Alignment Using Constrained Vertex FitsR. Harr, et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 41 (1994) 796-803.

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Last modified: Apr. 17, 2017