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Faculty Publications H–L

Jennifer A. Herdt, associate professor of theology, published Putting On Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

Michael Hildreth, professor of physics, published “Cavity BPM System Tests for the ILC Energy Spectrometer” with M. Slater et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 592 (2008): 201–17; and “The CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC” with the CMS Collaboration (R. Adolphi et al.), JINST 0803 (2008): S08004. He published the following (all in 2008) with Randal C. Ruchti, professor of physics, and Mitchell R. Wayne, professor of physics: “Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the Missing Energy and Acoplanar b-Jet Topology at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 251802; “Search for Pair Production of Second Generation Scalar Leptoquarks,” Phys. Lett. B 671 (2009): 224; “Search for a Scalar or Vector Particle Decaying into Zγ in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 349; “Search for Third Generation Scalar Leptoquarks Decaying into τb,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 241802; “Measurement of the Bs0 Mixing Parameters from the Flavor-Tagged Decay Bs0→J/ψφ,” ibid.: 241801; “Observation of the Doubly Strange b Baryon Ωb−,” ibid.: 232002; “Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in Multi-b-Jet Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 221802; “Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production,” ibid.: 221801; “Measurement of the Electron Charge Asymmetry in pp → W + X → eν + X Events at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 211801; “Measurement of σ(pp → Z + X)Br(Z → τ+τ−) at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 670: 292; “Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry and Extraction of sin2θWeff in pp → Z/γ* + X → e+e− + X Events Produced at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 191801; “Measurement of the Polarization of the Υ(1S) and Υ(2S) States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 182004; “Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass from Lepton+Jets Events,” ibid.: 182001; “Observation of ZZ Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 171803; “Measurement of Differential Z/γ* + jet + X Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 669: 278; “ZZ → l+l−νν Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008): 072002; “Search for Scalar Leptoquarks and T-odd Quarks in the Acoplanar Jet Topology Using 2.5 fb-1of pp Collision Data at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 668: 357; “Search for Long-Lived Particles Decaying into Electron or Photon Pairs with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008): 111802; “Search for tt Resonances in the Lepton Plus Jets Final State in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 668: 98; “Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 071804; “Search for Pair Production of Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons in the H++H−− → μ+μ+μ−μ− Final State,” ibid.: 071803; “Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 062001; “Measurement of the Differential Cross Section for the Production of an Isolated Photon with Associated Jet in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 666: 435; “Search for Decay of a Fermiophobic Higgs Boson hf→γγ with the DØ Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 051801; “Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks,” Phys. Rev. D 78: 012005; “Measurement of the Ratio of the pp → W + c-jet Cross Section to the Inclusive pp → W + jets Cross Section,” Phys. Lett. B 666: 23; “Observation of the Bc Meson in the Exclusive Decay Bc→J/ψπ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101: 012001; “Search for Large Extra Dimensions via Single Photon plus Missing Energy Final States at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 011601; “First Study of the Radiation-Amplitude Zero in Wγ Production and Limits on Anomalous WWγ Couplings at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 241805; “Search for Scalar Neutrino Superpartners in e+μ Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 241803; “Search for W′ Boson Resonances Decaying to a Top Quark and a Bottom Quark,” ibid.: 211803; “Study of Direct CP Violation in B±→J/ψK±(π±) Decays,” ibid.: 211802; “Search for Scalar Top Quarks in the Acoplanar Charm Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Final State in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 665: 1; “Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 192004; “Simultaneous Measurement of the Ratio B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) and the Top-Quark Pair Production Cross Section with the DØ Detector at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 192003; “Search for Excited Electrons in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 77: 091102; “Measurement of the Forward-Backward Charge Asymmetry in Top-Quark Pair Production,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 142002; “Search for ZZ and Zγ* Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Limits on Anomalous ZZZ and ZZγ* Couplings,” ibid.: 131801; “A Combined Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 663: 26; “Search for Flavor-Changing-Neutral-Current D Meson Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 101801; “Measurement of the Shape of the Boson-Transverse Momentum Distribution in pp → Z/γ* → e+e− + X Events Produced at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 102002; “Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons with 1 fb-1 of Data from pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” ibid.: 091802; “Observation and Properties of the Orbitally Excited Bs2* Meson,” ibid.: 082002; “Model-Independent Measurement of the W Boson Helicity in Top Quark Decays at DØ,” ibid.: 062004; “Search for Squarks and Gluinos in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy using 2.1 fb-1 of pp Collision Data at √s = 1.96 TeV.” Phys. Lett. B 660: 449; “Search for W′ Bosons Decaying to an Electron and a Neutrino with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100: 031804; and “Measurement of the Muon Charge Asymmetry from W Boson Decays,” Phys. Rev. D 77: 011106.

Mary Catherine Hilkert, professor of theology, published a second edition of her book Speaking with Authority: Catherine of Siena and the Voices of Women Today, with a new Introduction and Foreword by S. Noffke (Paulist Press, 2008); and “On Not Losing Heart: Catherine of Siena and the Strategies of Prayer and Friendship,” in Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women’s Strategies for Reform, ed. C.M. Griffith (New York: Crossroad, 2009).

Sallie Hood, director of design for the Center for Building Communities, and Ronald J. Sakal, executive director of the center, published Designing for the Future: Introducing the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Building Communities (Notre Dame School of Architecture, 2008): 149 pages.

Bei Hu, professor of mathematics, published “Blowup Rate Estimates for the Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Gradient Source Term” with J.-S/ Guo, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems—Series A 20, No. 4 (2008): 927–37; “Stability and Instability of Liapounov-Schmidt and Hopf Bifurcation for a Free Boundary Problem Arising in a Tumor Model” with A. Friedman, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 360, No. 10 (2008): 5291–342; “A Parabolic–Hyperbolic Quasilinear System” with X. Chen and A. Friedman, Communications in Partial Differential Equations 33, No. 6 (2008): 969–87; “The Role of Oxygen in Tissue Maintenance: a Mathematical Model” with A. Friedman, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences 18 No. 8 (2008): 1409–41; and “Viscosity Solutions of a Discontinuous Hamilton-Jacobi Equation” with X. Chen, Interfaces and Free Boundaries 10 No. 3 (2008): 339–59.

Paul W. Huber, professor of chemistry, republished "Synthesis of the Unnatural Amino Acid Na -Ne -(ferrocene-1-acetyl)-L-lysine: A Novel Organometallic Nuclease" with A.M. Gellett and P.J. Higgins in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 693 (2008): 2959–62; and republished ‘A Manganese-Dependent Ribozyme in the 3’-Untranslated Tegion of Xenopus Vg1 mRNA," written with N.G. Koley and E.I. Hartland, in Nucleic Acids Research 36, No. 17 (2008): 5530–39.

Gordon L. Hug (retired administrator, Radiation Laboratory), G. Hörner. D. Pogocki, P. Filipiak, W. Bauer, A. Grohmann, A. Lämmermann, T. Pedzinski, and B. Marciniak published “Head-to-Tail Interactions in Tyrosine/Benzophenone Dyads in the Ground and the Excited State: NMR and Laser Flash Photolysis Studies” in Chemistry, A European Journal 14 (2008): 7913–29; “Electron Localization in Liquid Hydrocarbons: The Anderson Model” with Asokendu Mozumder (professor emeritus in the Radiation Laboratory, in Radiation Physics and Chemistry 77 (2008): 1169–75; and “Stereoselectivity of the Hydrogen-Atom Transfer in Benzophenone-Tyrosine Dyads: An Intramolecular Kinetic Solvent Effect” with G. Hörner, A. Lewandowska, F. Kazmierczak, and B. Marciniak, in Chemistry, A European Journal (2009): 3061–4.

R.V.F. Janssens, adjunct professor of physics, published “Structure of 240Pu: Evidence for Octupole Phonon Condensation?” with X. Wang, M.P. Carpenter, S. Zhu, I. Wiedenhöver, Umesh Garg (professor of physics), Stefan G. Frauendorf (professor of physics), T. Takatsukasa, I. Ahmad, A. Bernstein, E. Diffenderfer, S.J. Freeman, J.P. Greene, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, A. Larabee, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, B. Meredith, D. Seweryniak, C. Teal, and P. Wilson, Physical Review Letters 102 (2009): 122501.

Thomas Jemielity, emeritus faculty, published “God Almighty: Good Enough for Northwestern” at http://cynicmag.com/features2006.asp?articleid=2312 (July 2008) or http://archive.cynicmag.com/archive.asp?articleid=2312&cat=Features.

Maxwell Johnson, professor of liturgical studies, published “Christian Initiation” in S. Ashbrook Harvey and D. Hunter (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 1552–93; “Building Christian Unity,” in Gervase Holdaway, O.S.B. (ed.), The Oblate Life (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2008): 231–6; and “Tempus per annum: Celebrating the Mystery of Christ in All its Fullness” in Liturgical Ministry 17 (fall 2008): 153–63.

Prashant V. Kamat, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, senior scientist in the Radiation Lab, and concurrent professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, published “TiO2- Graphene Nanocomposites: UV-Assisted Photocatalytic Reduction of Graphene Oxide” with G. Williams and Brian Seger, graduate student in the Radiation Lab, in ACSNANO 2, No. 7 (2008): 1487–91; and “Solvent Dependence of the Charge-Transfer Properties of a Quaterthiophene-Anthraquinone Dyad” with J. Wan, A. Ferreira, W. Xia, Chak H. Chow, K. Takechi, G. Jones II, and V.I. Vullev, J. Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 197 (2008): 364–74. Kamat also published “Excited-State and Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Pyrene-Linked Phenyleneethynylene Oligomer” with Y. Matsunaga, K. Takechi, T. Akasaka, A.R. Ramesh, P.V. James, and K.G. Thomas in J. Phys. Chem. B 112, No. 46 (2008): 14539–47; “Photocatalysis with CdSe Nanoparticles in Confined Media: Mapping Charge Transfer Events in the Subpicosecond to Second Timescales” with Clifton Harris graduate appointment in the Radiation Lab, _ACSNano) 3, No. 3 (2009): 682–90; “Substrate Driven Photochemistry of CdSe Quantum Dot Films: Charge Injection and Irreversible Transformations on Oxide Surfaces” with Kavin Tvrdy, graduate appointment in the Radiation Lab J. Phys. Chem. A 113, No. 16 (2009): 3765–72; and “Electrocatalytically Active Graphene-Platinum Nanocomposites: Role of 2-D Carbon Support in PEM Fuel Cells” with Brian Seger, graduate research assistant), in J. Phys. Chem. C 113, No. 19 (2009): 7990–5.

James J. Kolata, professor of physics, published “New Measurements on Breakup of 8B + 58Ni at Energies Around the Coulomb Barrier” with E.F. Aguilera, E. Martinez-Quiroz, T.L. Belyaeva, and R. Leyte-González in Physics of Atomic Nuclei 71 (2008): 1163–7; “The 9Be(8Li,9Be)8Li Elastic-Transfer Reaction” with O. Camargo, V. Guimarães, R. Lichtenthäler, V. Scarduelli, C.A. Bertulani, H. Amro, F.D. Bechetti, Hao Jiang, E.F. Aguilera, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, and H. Garcia in Phys. Rev. C 78 (2008): 034605 [8 pages]; “132Sn+96Zr Reaction: A Study of Fusion Enhancement/Hindrance” with A.M. Vinodkumar, W. Loveland, J.J. Neeway, L. Prisbrey, P.H. Sprunger, D. Peterson, J.F. Liang, D. Shapira, C.J. Gross, R.L. Varner, A. Roberts, and A.L. Caralay, ibid.78 (2008): 054608 [7 pages]; “Elastic Scattering of a Proton-Halo Nucleus: 8B+58Ni,” written with E.F. Aguilera, E. Martinez-Quiroz, P. Rosales, D. Lizcano, A. Gomez-Camacho, L.O Lamm, V. Guimaraes, R. Lichtenthaler, O. Camargo, F.D. Becchetti, H. Jiang, P.A. DeYoung, and P.J. Mears, in Revista Mexicana de Fisica 54 (Suppl. S) (2008): 1–4; “Transfer Reactions in the Investigation of Light-Nuclei Nucleosynthesis,” with V. Guimaraes, O. Camargo, R. Lichtenthaler, V. Scardelli, H. Amro, F.D. Becchetti, Hao Jiang, E.F. Aguilera, D. Lizcano, E. Martinez-Quiroz, and H. Garcia, ibid. 54 (Suppl. S) (2008): 63–68; and “Reaction Cross Sections for 8B, 7Be, and 6Li+58Ni near the Coulomb Barrier: Proton-Halo Effects,” with E.F. Aguilera, E. Martinez-Quiroz, D. Lizcano, A. Gómez-Camacho, L.O. Lamm, V. Guimarães, R. Lichtenthäler, O. Camargo, F.D. Becchetti, H. Jiang, P.A. DeYoung, P.J. Mears, and T.L. Belyaeva, in Physical Review C 79, 021601® (2009) [5 pages].

Christopher Kolda, associate professor of physics and director of undergraduate studies, published “Review of Particle Physics” (with Particle Data Group, C. Amsler et al.) in Physics Letters B 667 (2008): 1–1340.

Kevin Lannon, professor of physics, published the following with The CDF Collaboration: “Search for Supersymmetry in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) .96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of Chargino-Neutralino Production.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008): 251801; “Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section at CDF,” ibid. 101 (2008): 252001; “Search for Higgs Boson Produced with Z → ℓ ℓ in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) .96 TeV,” ibid. 101 (2008): 251803; “First Measurement of the Fraction of Top Quark Pair Production Through Gluon-Gluon Fusion,” Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008): 111101; “Search for Large Extra Dimensions in Final States Containing One Photon or Jet and Large Missing Transverse Energy Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) .96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008): 181602; “Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) .96 TeV,” ibid. 101 (2008): 202001; “Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay tau —> Zq in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) .96 TeV,” ibid. 101 (2008): 202001; “Measurement of b-jet Shapes in Inclusive Jet Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008): 072005; “Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section at the Fermilab Tevatron p anti-p Collider Using a Cone-Based Jet Algorithm,” ibid. 78 (2008): 052006; “Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Neutralinos that Decay to Photons at CDF II Using Photon Timing,” ibid. 78 (2008): 032015; “Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays involving Tau Leptons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008): 121801; “Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a tau Lepton and a b Quark in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 101 (2008): 071802; “Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson at CDF,” Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008): 032008; “Model-Independent and Quasi-Model-Independent Search for New Physics at CDF,” ibid. 78 (2008): 012002; “Cross Section Measurements o High-p(t) Dilepton Final-State Processes Using a Global Fitting Method,” ibid. 78 (2008): 09120003; “Strong Evidence for ZZ Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008): 201801; “Search for the Higgs Boson in Events with Missing Transverse Energy and b Quark Jets Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 100 (2008): 211801; “First Run II Measurement of the W Boson Mass,” Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008): 112001; “Search for Third Generation Vector Leptoquarks in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 77 (2008): 092001; “Search for Resonant tt-bar Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008): 231801; “Measurement of Lifetime and Decay-Width Difference in B0 —> J/psi phi Decays,” ibid. 100 (2008): 121803; “Observation of the Decay B+/-c —> J/psi pi++/- and Measurement of the B+/-c Mass,” ibid. 100 (2008): 182002; “Measurement of Correlated bb-bar Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1960 GeV,” Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008): 072004; “Two-particle Momentum Correlations in Jets Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. (2008): 092001; “First Flavor-Tagged Determination of Bounds on Mixing-Induced CP Violation in B0 —> J/psi phi Decays,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008): 161802; “Evidence for D0-D-bar0 Mixing using the CDF II Detector,” ibid. 100 (2008): 121802; “Search for Heavy Top-like Quarks Using Lepton Plus Jets Events in 1.96 TeV p anti-p Collisions,” ibid. 100 (2008): 161803; “Measurement of Ratios of Fragmentation Fractions for Bottom Hadrons in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008): 072003; “Measurement of Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in Z/gamma*(→ e+e-)+jets Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008): 102001; “First Measurement of the Production of a W Boson in Association with a Single Charm Quark in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 100 (2008): 091803; “Search for B0 → mu+ mu- and B0 → mu+ mu- Decays in 2 fb-1 of p anti-p Collisions with CDF II,” ibid. 100 (2008): 101802; “Observation of Exclusive Dijet Production at the Fermilab Tevatron p anti-p Collider,” Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008): 052004; “Limits on the Production of Narrow tt-bar Resonances in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 77 (2008): 051102; “Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV with high-p(t) Leptons,” ibid. 77 (2008): 052002; “Measurement of the Cross Section for W-boson Production in Association with Jets in p anti-p Collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 77 (2008): 011108; “Cross Section Constrained Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at the Tevatron,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008): 062005; “A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV,” ibid. 100 (2008): 071801; “Observation of Orbitally Excited B_s Mesons,” ibid. 100 (2008): 082001; “Search for Standard Model Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with W Bosons,” ibid. 100 (2008): 041801; and “First Observation of the Decay B0 → D(s)- D+_s and Measurement of Its Branching Ratio,” ibid. 100 (2008): 021803.

Jay A. LaVerne, professional specialist, concurrent research professor, Radiation Laboratory, published “Aqueous Solution of UCI62- in O2 Saturated Acidic Medium: An Efficient System to Scavenge All Primary Radicals in Spurs Produced by Irradiation” with E. Atinault, V. De Waele, M. Fattahi, S.M. Pimblott, visiting scholar, Radiation Laboratory, and M. Mostafavi, in J. Phys. Chem. A 113 (2009): 949–51; and “Reactions of Hydrated Electrons with Pyridinium Salts in Aqueous Solutions” with K. Enomoto in J. Phys. Chem. 112, No. 48 (2008): 12430–6.

David C. Leege, professor emeritus of political science, published the chapter “Catholics and the American Presidency” in G. Espinosa, ed., Religion, Race, and the American Presidency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008): 55–79.

Nicolas Lehner, research assistant professor of physics, published “Probing Feedback in Protogalaxies: Multiphase Gas in a DLA at z ~ 2.4” with J.C. Howk, assistant professor of physics, J.X. Prochaska, and A.M. Wolfe, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 390 (2008): 2–20; “The Connection Between a Lyman Limit System, a Very Strong OVI Absorber, and Galaxies at z ~ 0.203” with J.X. Prochaska, H.A. Kobulnicky, K.L. Cooksey, J.C. Howk, G.M. Williger, and S.L. Cales, The Astrophysical Journal 694 (2009): 734–50; and “Metallicity and Physical Conditions in the Magellanic Bridge” with J.C. Howk, F.P. Keenan, and J.V. Smoker, Astrophysical Journal 678 (2008): 219–33.