James Beacham
PhD student
Department of Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
I'm a PhD student in the Department of Physics at New York University. I do high energy particle physics, and I'm interested in the place where theory meets experiment, especially with respect to extensions of the standard model, Higgs searches, large extra dimensions, and the search for viable dark matter candidates.
I work with Professor Kyle Cranmer, of the Experimental Particle Physics Group, on several experiments and projects.
My current focus is the ATLAS Experiment, one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN, looking for evidence of exotic decays of the Higgs boson.
I also work on APEX, an experiment at Jefferson Lab that searches for new vector bosons (A') with weak coupling to electrons and with masses < 1 GeV. I gave a presentation at a workshop, Boson 2010: Searching for a New Gauge Boson at JLab, in September, 2010. The paper with the results of the test run is here...
...and I presented a poster on the experiment at the Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier workshop in December 2011.
Prior to that, I worked on analyzing data collected by the ALEPH experiment, at LEP. Our first analysis looked for a Higgs boson decaying into four tau leptons, and our paper is here:
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J. Beacham, K. Cranmer, P. Spagnolo, I. Yavin, on behalf of the ALEPH Collaboration:
"Search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into four taus at LEP2", March 2010
I gave a talk (~10 MB) on this work at Moriond QCD, in March of 2010.
I was the particle physicist on a panel discussion about art and science at Central Booking gallery in Brooklyn, in December of 2010.
I previously attended UC Santa Cruz, where our SPS chapter was possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread, and where I completed a double major in physics and math.
Other pertinent info: My initials are JBB, and I don't use Tw1tt3r, F@ceb00k or L1nkedIn.