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Penn/Atlas Group		Peter Wagner CERN Bat. 3150-R-015 CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland Phone: X70052

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ATLAS Detector at CERN

Education

	July 2007 - present	Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania
	Sept. 2001 - July 2007	Physics graduate studies, Texas A&M University, College Station
	July 2000 Oct. 1998 - Sept. 2001	Vordiplom in Physics Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany)
	June 1998	Abitur, Immanuel Kant Gymnasium, Boppard (Germany)

Seminars and Conference Talks

12th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation 2010, Feb. 2010: “Commissioning and Performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker with Cosmic Rays and First High Energy Collisions at LHC”

Thesis Defense, May 2007:
''Search for Heavy, Neutral, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF''

Lake Louise Winter Institute 2007 at Chateau Lake Louise, Feb. 2007:
''Searches for New Physics at CDF''
American Physical Society, Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2004) at the University of California at Riverside, Aug. 2004:
''Prospects of a Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles using Photon Timing at CDF''
New Perspectives Conference at Fermilab, June 2004:
''Prospects of a Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles using the EMTiming System at CDF''
High-Energy Seminar at Texas A&M University, May 2004:
''Prospects of a Search for New Physics using the EMTiming System at CDF''
Texas Section of the American Physical Society at Texas Tech University, Oct. 2003:
''Prospects of a Search for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles using the EMTiming System at CDF''
High-Energy Seminar at Texas A&M University, Apr. 2002:
''Simulation of the Calorimeter Timing System at CDF''

Publications

My dissertation: "Search for Heavy, Neutral, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center of Mass Energy = 1.96 TeV FERMILAB-THESIS-2007-014

ATLAS

B. Auerbach, S. Fratina, M. Hance, P. Lichard, M. Newcomer, D. Olivito, R. Van Berg, P. Wagner, H. Williams, “The TRT Fast-OR Trigger,“ ATL-PUB-INDET-2009-002*

CDF

Aaltonen et. al. (CDF Collaboration), “Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Neutralinos that Decay to Photons at CDF II using photon timing,” Phys. Rev. D78, 032015 (2008)**
A. Abulencia et. al. (CDF Collaboration), "Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:121801 (2007)*
M. Goncharov et. al., “The Timing System for the CDF Electromagnetic Calorimeters,” Nucl. Instr. Meth. A565, 543 (2006).*
R. Arnowitt, A. Aurisano, B. Dutta, T. Kamon, N. Kolev, P. Simeon, D. Toback, and P. Wagner, “Measurement of the Stau Minus Neutralino Mass Difference and Mgluino in the Co-annihilation Region at the LHC,” Phys. Lett. B649, 73 (2007).**
D. Toback and P. Wagner, ''Prospects of Searches for Neutral, Long-Lived Particles which decay to Photons using Timing at CDF'', Phys. Rev. D70, 114032 (2004).*
Z. W. Chong, M. Cvetic, G. W. Gibbons, H. Lü, C. N. Pope and P. Wagner,
''General Metrics of G2 Holonomy and Contraction Limits'', Nucl. Phys. B 638, 459 (2002).**

* Primary Author/Analyzer, ** Major Author/Analyzer

Awards

June 2008	URA Thesis Award Fermi National Lab (talk)
Aug. 2004	Travel award to the DPF conference (talk)
Sept. 2002 - May 2003	Fellowship for graduate studies at Texas A&M University
Aug. 2001 - May 2002	Scholastic Scholarship from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) for studies at Texas A&M University
July 1998	Award for 2nd best grades in the Abitur

Media and other things

July 2008: Article on the TRT Fast-OR trigger in ATLAS e-news
Hawking Science Fair at Texas A&M:
Elementary Particle Physics Poster
Preliminary Exam at Texas A&M (talk and proposal)

CERN Summer Student report and poster for ISOLTRAP

Hobbies

Winner of the ebikes.ca award April 2010!