OCNPS 217 Old Dominion University 4600 Elkhorn Ave Norfolk, VA 23529 email: rbennett@odu.edu tel: 516.491.7929 Robert Paul Bennett Education: Experience: State University of New York at Stony Brook: Stony Brook, NY Ph.D. Physics May 2009 Thesis: Cross section and Double Helicity Asymmetry in Direct Photon Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =200 GeV (Advisor: Abhay Deshpande) Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA S.B. Physics January 2001 Thesis: Thermally Adaptive Optics in LIGO II (Advisor: Rainer Weiss) Post-doctoral Researcher, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 2009-Present Focus: Analysis of two-photon contribution to the Rosenbluth cross-section Supervisor: Lawrence Weinstein, Old Dominion University o Developed GEANT models and Monte Carlo simulations to estimate experimental backgrounds and optimize new beamline component for the two-photon exchange (TPE) experiment o Lead analysis of two-photon exchange data set o Lead data calibration and QA of ~10 tera-byte TPE data set o Headed construction of clean room facility to house CLAS12 Region II drift chamber development o Supervised QA of CLAS12 Region II drift chambers and components Adjunct Faculty, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 2010-Present Physics 231 Introductory Physics for Engineers (Scale-up style class room) Physics 112N Introductory Physics for Life Science Majors Graduate Student Researcher, PHENIX at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), Brookhaven National Laboratory. Upton, NY 2004-2009 Focus: Gluon spin contribution to the spin of the proton ( g) Advisor: Abhay Deshpande, Stony Brook University/RIKEN Brookhaven Research Center Thesis Topic: Cross section and Double Helicity Asymmetry in Direct Photon Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =200 GeV o Lead analysis of direct photon double helicity asymmetry (A LL ) for 2005 and 2006 RHIC runs o Developed statistical subtraction and isolation cut analysis techniques used in all subsequent direct photon extractions of g at PHENIX o Analysis of direct photon cross section in 2005 and 2006 data sets o Developed Monte Carlo and analysis procedure used in luminosity and vernier scan measurements for 2005, 2006 and 2008 data sets o QA of silicon vertex detector o Finite element analysis of thermal deformation of vertex detector o Managed data production of 2006 RHIC Run 200 GeV longitudinal data set on PHENIX computing farm 1 Robert P. Bennett
Awards and Honors: Physics Associate, Collider-Acclerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 2000-2002 Focus: Operation and troubleshooting of Alternating Gradient Synchrotron and RHIC facility at Brookhaven national laboratory Undergraduate Student Researcher, LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory), M.I.T. Center for Space Research Cambridge, MA 1998-2000 Advisor: Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis Topic: Thermally Adaptive Optics in LIGO II Finite element analysis of heat deposit in LIGO optics Modeling and development of a correction scheme for wave front deformations in LIGO optics Study of Viton o-ring seal failures Jefferson Science Associates Promising Young Scientist 2010 Old Dominion University Division of Student Affairs Shining Star Teaching Award 2010 Nominated for Graduate Teaching Award Stony Brook University Technical Skills: C/C++, PERL, Python, R, Unix & unix-like systems, ROOT, MatLab, Mathematica, Familiar with several finite element analysis packages (MSC Nastran, Abaqus & CAELinux) Students Supervised: Seth Berl Undergraduate Thesis: Cosmic Ray Tracking and Calibration of Jefferson Lab CLAS12 Region II Drift Chamber (May 2012) Chris Wooten Undergraduate Thesis: Data Mining in CLAS (Expected May 2013) Anthony Sciola Undergraduate Thesis: Characterization of CLAS12 Region II Endplate Deformation Under Wire Tension and Gravitationl Load (Expected May 2013) Arthur Burn Undergraduate Thesis: TBD (Expected May 2013) Talks: 1. Beyond the Born Approximation: Results from the two photon exchange experiment at CLAS at University of Kentucky, November 6, 2012 Lexington, KY 2. Beyond the Born Approximation: Measuring the two photon exchange effect at CLAS at Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Proton Form Factors, PNPI, July 9, 2012 St. Petersburg, Russia 3. Beyond the Born Approximation: Measuring the two photon exchange effect at CLAS at New Mexico State University Colloquium, April 17, 2012 Las Cruces, NM 4. Beyond the Born Approximation: Measuring the two photon exchange effect at CLAS at Stony Brook University Nuclear Seminar, October 6 2011 Stony Brook, NY 5. Measurements the two photon exchange effect in lepton-proton elastic scattering at CLAS at 19 th Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 24, 2011 Cambridge, MA 6. Probing the Inner Structure of the Proton : Measuring the Two-Photon Exchange Effect in Electron Proton Elastic Scattering, at University of New Hampshire, April 15, 2011 Durham, NH 7. Measuring the two photon exchange effect in electron proton scattering at CLAS at CLAS12 2 nd European Workshop, Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, March 7, 2011 Paris, France 8. Measuring the two photon exchange effect in electron proton scattering at CLAS at The 12 th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon, College of William and Mary, May 31, 2010, Williamsburg, VA 9. Direct Photon Cross Section and Double longitudinal Spin Asymmetry at PHENIX in 200 GeV pp Collisions at The 18 th International Symposium on Spin Physics, University of Virginia, Oct. 6, 2008, Charlottesville, VA 2 Robert P. Bennett
10. Accessing the Gluon Contribution to the Spin of the Proton via Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetry Measurements in Polarized pp Collisions at PHENIX at The 34 th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), University of Pennsylvania, Aug. 1, 2008, Philadelphia, PA 11. Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry and Cross Section for Direct Photon Production at Mid-rapidity in Polarized $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV $pp$ Collisions at PHENIX APS Division of Nuclear Physics Oct. 12, 2007 Newport News, VA 12. Longitudinal Double Spin Asymmetry and Cross Section for Direct Photon Production at Mid-rapidity in Polarized $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV APS Division of Nuclear Physics Oct. 28, 2006 Nashville, TN Publications: 1. Direct-Photon Production in p+p Collisions at s =200 GeV at Midrapidity. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). May 2012. 16 pp. e-print: arxiv:1205.5533 2. Inclusive cross section and double helicity asymmetry for $\pi^{0}$ production in $p+p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 62.4$ GeV. Accepted by Phys.Rev.D. E-Print: 0810.0701v1[hep-ex] 3. Measurement of Double Longitudinal Spin Asymmetry (A_LL) in Direct Photon Production in sqrt(s)=200gev Proton-Proton Collisions at PHENIX R. Bennett, K. Okada and T. Horaguchi RIKEN Accel. Prog. Rep. 41 (2008) 4. Inclusive cross-section and double helicity asymmetry for pi0 production in p + p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV: Implications for the polarized gluon distribution in the proton. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Apr 2007. 7pp. Published in Phys.Rev.D76:051106,2007. e-print: arxiv:0704.3599 [hep-ex] 5. Direct photon production in p + p at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV, and it s double spin asymmetry measurement. K. Okada, R, Bennett, and T. Horaguchi RIKEN Accel. Prog. Rep. 40 (2007) 6. Absolute luminosity determination using vernier scan technique at PHENIX, Y. Goto and R. Bennett RIKEN Accel. Prog. Rep. 40 (2007) Additional Publications: 1. Inclusive cross section and single-transverse-spin asymmetry for very forward neutron production in polarized p+p collisions at s=200 GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare (Colorado U.) et al.). Sep 2012. 16 pp. e-print: arxiv:1209.3283 2. Double Spin Asymmetry of Electrons from Heavy Flavor Decays in p+p Collisions at s=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Sep 2012. 17 pp. e-print: arxiv:1209.3278 3. Neutral pion production with respect to centrality and reaction plane in Au+Au collisions at s_nn=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Aug 2012. 20 pp. e-print: arxiv:1208.2254 4. Cold-nuclear-matter effcts on heavy-quark production in d+au collisions at sqrt(s_nn)=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.) Aug 2012. 7 pp. e-print: arxiv:1208.1293 5. Direct photon production in d+au collisions at sqrt(s_nn)=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.) Aug 2012. 7 pp. e-print: arxiv:1208.1234 6. Measurement of Direct Photons in Au+Au Collisions at s_nn=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (S. Afanasiev et al.). May 2012. 7 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 152302 7. Measurement of Exclusive π 0 Electroproduction Structure Functions and their Relationship to Transversity GPDs. CLAS Collaboration (I. Bedlinskiy (Moscow, ITEP) et al.). Jun 2012. 6 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 112001 8. Nuclear-Modification Factor for Open-Heavy-Flavor Production at Forward Rapidity in Cu+Cu Collisions at s_nn=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Apr 2012. 18 pp. Phys.Rev. C86 (2012) 024909 9. Deviation from quark-number scaling of the anisotropy parameter v2 of pions, kaons, and protons in Au+Au collisions at s_nn=200 GeV PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Mar 2012. 16 pp. Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 064914 10. Measurement of the generalized form factors near threshold via γ p n π at high Q^2. CLAS Collaboration (K. Park et al.). Jan 2012. 17 pp. Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 035208 3 Robert P. Bennett
11. Upper limits for the photoproduction cross section for the Φ (1860) pentaquark state off the deuteron. CLAS Collaboration (H. Egiyan et al.). Sep 2011. 10 pp. Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 015205 12. Suppression of back-to-back hadron pairs at forward rapidity in d+au Collisions at s_nn=200 GeV. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). May 2011. 6 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 172301 13. Observation of direct-photon collective flow in sqrt(s_nn)=200 GeV Au+Au collisions. PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). May 2011. 6 pp. Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 122302 14. Measurement of Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetries for J/psi Production in Polarized p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Sep 2010. (Published Dec 1, 2010). 13pp. Phys.Rev.D82:112008,2010. 15. Tensor Correlations Measured in $^3He(e,e'pp)n$. By CLAS Collaboration (H. Baghdasaryan et al.). Aug 2010. (Published Nov 26, 2010). 5pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.105:222501,2010. 16. High $p_t$ direct photon and $\pi^0$ triggered azimuthal jet correlations and measurement of $k_t$ for isolated direct photons in $p+p$ collisions at $sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Jun 2010. (Published Oct 1, 2010). 18pp. Published in Phys.Rev.D82:072001,2010. 17. Dilepton mass spectra in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV and the contribution from open charm. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Feb 2008. 18pp. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. e-print: arxiv:0802.0050 [hep-ex] 18. Energy dependence of pi0 production in Cu + Cu collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 22.4-GeV, 62.4-GeV, and 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Jan 2008. 7pp. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. e-print: arxiv:0801.4555 [nucl-ex] 19. Dihadron azimuthal correlations in Au+Au collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Jan 2008. 44pp. Submitted to Phys.Rev.C e-print: arxiv:0801.4545 [nucl-ex] 20. Suppression pattern of neutral pions at high transverse momentum in Au + Au collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV and constraints on medium transport coefficients. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Jan 2008. 6pp. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. e-print: arxiv:0801.4020 [nucl-ex] 21. Enhancement of the dielectron continuum in s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-geV Au+Au collisions. By PHENIX Collaboration (S. Afanasiev et al.). Jun 2007. 7pp. Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett. e-print: arxiv:0706.3034 [nucl-ex] 22. Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of dihadron correlations in Au+Au collisions at s(nn) = 200-GeV: Jet-quenching and the response of partonic matter. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). May 2007. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.C77:011901,2008. e-print: arxiv:0705.3238 [nucl-ex] 23. Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on J/Psi as Constrained by Deuteron-Gold Measurements at sqrt(s) = 200GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2007. 15pp.e-Print: arxiv:0711.3917 [nucl-ex] 24. Elliptic flow for phi mesons and (anti)deuterons in Au + Au collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (S. Afanasiev et al.). Mar 2007. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.99:052301,2007. e- Print: nucl-ex/0703024 25. J/psi Production vs Centrality, Transverse Momentum, and Rapidity in Au+Au Collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:232301,2007. e-print: nucl-ex/0611020 26. System Size and Energy Dependence of Jet-Induced Hadron Pair Correlation Shapes in Cu+Cu and Au+Au Collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200 and 62.4-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:232302,2007.e-Print: nucl-ex/0611019 27. Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:172301,2007. e-print: nuclex/0611018 28. Correlated Production of p and anti-p in Au+Au Collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2006. 12pp. Published in Phys.Lett.B649:359-369,2007. e-print: nuclex/0611016 29. J / psi production versus transverse momentum and rapidity in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Nov 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:232002,2007. e- Print: hep-ex/0611020 30. Measurement of high-p(t) single electrons from heavy-flavor decays in p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-4 Robert P. Bennett
GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Sep 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.97:252002,2006. e-print: hep-ex/0609010 31. Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at s(nn) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (A. Adare et al.). Aug 2006. 6pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.98:162301,2007. e- Print: nucl-ex/0608033 32. Improved measurement of double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi0 production for polarized p+p collisions at s**(1/2) = 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (Stephen Scott Adler et al.). Feb 2006. 4pp. Published in Phys.Rev.D73:091102,2006. e-print: hep-ex/0602004 33. Saturation of azimuthal anisotropy in Au + Au collisions at s(nn)**(1/2) 62-GeV to 200-GeV. By PHENIX Collaboration (Stephen Scott Adler et al.). Nov 2004. 7pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.94:232302,2005. e- Print: nucl-ex/0411040 34. Thermally Adaptive Optics in LIGO II. B.S. Thesis MIT Jan 2001 Schools and Workshops: 1. Gordon Research Conference, Tilton NH 2010 2. Future Prospects in QCD at High Energy Workshop, BNL Brookhaven NY July 2006 3. 2nd PHENIX SpinFest School on QCD Physics, BNL Brookhaven NY August 2006 4. 1st PHENIX SpinFest School on QCD Physics, RIKEN Wako, Saitama Japan July 2005 5. BNL Summer School on QCD Spin Physics, BNL Brookhaven NY June 2004 6. USPAS Rice University, Houston Texas, January 2001 Languages: Elementary Japanese and conversant in Mandarin Chinese Activities & Interests: Judo (2X Bronze medalist in Massachusetts State Championships) helped to revive the M.I.T. Judo Club, Arduino microcontrollers and FPGA's References : 1. Lawrence Weinstein 2. Gail Dodge University Professor Professor Old Dominion University Old Dominion University Department of Physics Department of Physics Norfolk, VA 23529 Norfolk, VA 23529 weinstein@odu.edu gdodge@odu.edu (757) 683-5803 (757) 683-5854 3. Abhay Deshpande 4. Mac Mestayer University Professor Physicist Stony Brook University Thomas Jefferson National Department of Physics and Astronomy Accelerator Facility Stony Brook, NY 11974 Newport New VA abhay@bnl.gov mestayer@jlab.org (631) 632-8109 (757) 269-7252 5 Robert P. Bennett