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Faculty Publications R-Z

Adrian J. Reimers, adjunct assistant professor of theology, published “Obcy własnym ciałom—obcy sobie samym” [Alienated from Our Bodies—Alienated from Ourselves] in Pressje: Teka XVII Klubu Jagiellońskiego, (Krakow, Poland: 2009): 87–101.

Terrence W. Rettig, professor of physics, published Spectroscopic Diagnostics of FUors and EXors , Liskowsky, J. P., Brittain, S., Rettig, T., Simon, T., Gibb, E.  2009. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 41, 355. Dust settling in magnetorotationally driven turbulent discs - I. Numerical methods and evidence for a vigorous streaming instability.  Balsara, D. S., Tilley, D. A., Rettig, T., Brittain, S. D.  2009. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 397, 24-43. Dust settling in magnetorotationally-driven turbulent discs - II. The pervasiveness of the streaming instability and its consequences. Tilley, D. A., Balsara, D. S., Brittain, S. D., Rettig, T.  2009. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 248.

Gabriel Said Reynolds, Tisch Family Associate Professor of Theology, published “The Muslim Jesus: Dead or Alive?” in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 72 (2009): 237–58.  The Critique of Christian Origins: Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s (d. 415/1025) Islamic Essay on Christianity. Introduced and Translated.  Edited Samir Khalil Samir. Provo UT: BYU Press, 2010.

Karen E. Richman, director of Migration and Border Studies in the Institute for Latino Studies, published “Congregating by Cassette” with T. Rey in International Journal of Cultural Studies 12, No. 1 (2009): 53–70.  Run from the Earthquake, Fall into the Abyss: A Léogane Paradox.  Social Text. January, 2010. http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/ayiti-kraze-haiti-in-fragments/.

Father Neil J. Roy, visiting assistant professor, theology, “Christ the Eternal High Priest in Two Images by Maximilian Schmalzl, CSsR,” Antiphon, 14:1 (2010) 17-29.

Randall Ruchti, professor of physics, published “Search for Pair Production of Second Generation Scalar Leptoquarks,” Phys. Lett. B 671, 224 (2009). “Search for a Scalar or Vector Particle Decaying into Zγ in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 671, 349 (2009). “Measurement of the W boson mass,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141801 (2009). “A Novel method for modeling the recoil in W boson events at hadron collider,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Nucl. Instrum. Meth.A 609, 250-262 (2009). “Direct measurement of the mass difference between top and antitop quarks,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 132001 (2009). “Search for squark production in events with jets, hadronically decaying tau leptons and missing transverse energy at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,”  V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 680, 24-33 (2009). “Search for NMSSM Higgs bosons in the h → aa → mmmm, mm tt channels using p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061801 (2009). “Search for dark photons from supersymmetric hidden valleys,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081802 (2009). “Measurement of the top quark mass in final states with two leptons,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 092006 (2009). “Measurement of the WW production cross section with dilepton final states in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV and limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 191801 (2009). “Combination of t anti-t cross section measurements and constraints on the mass of the top quark and its decays into charged Higgs bosons,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D 80, 071102 (2009). “Search for the standard model Higgs boson in tau final states,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 251801 (2009). “Observation of Single Top Quark Production,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009). “Measurement of the Z gamma → nu anti-nu gamma cross section and limits on anomalous Z Z gamma and Z gamma gamma couplings in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201802 (2009). “Evidence for decay B0(s) → D**(*)(s) D**(*)(s) and a measurement of Delta Gamma**CP(s)/ Gamma(s),” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091801 (2009). “Search for the lightest scalar top quark in events with two leptons in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,’ V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 675, 289 (2009). “Search for neutral Higgs bosons at high tan(beta) in the b(h/H/A) → b tau+ tau- channel,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051804 (2009). “Search for Large extra spatial dimensions in the dielectron and diphoton channels in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV, V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051601 (2009).  “Search for pair production of second generation scalar leptoquarks,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 671, 224-232 (2009).  “A Search for associated W and Higgs Boson production in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051803 (2009).  “Search for a scalar or vector particle decaying into Zgamma in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96-TeV,” V. Abazov et al.(D0 Collaboration),  Phys. Lett. B 671, 349-355 (2009). “Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant from the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,”  Phys. Rev. D 80, 111107 (2009). “Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 231802 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Top Quark Decays,” Phys. Lett. B 682, 278 (2009). “Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Searches for Quark Compositeness and Extra Spatial Dimensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 191803 (2009). “Search for Pair Production of First-Generation Leptoquarks in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 681, 224 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quarks,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 051107 (2009). “Measurement of Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings from WW + WZ → lνjj Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 053012 (2009). “Search for Associated Production of Charginos and Neutralinos in the Trilepton Final State using 2.3 fb-1 of Data,” Phys. Lett. B 680, 34, (2009). “Search for Resonant Pair Production of Neutral Long-Lived Particles Decaying to bb in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 071801 (2009). “Search for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the h → aa → μμ μμ, μμ ττ Channels using pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061801 (2009). “Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section and Top Quark Mass Extraction Using Dilepton Events in pp Collisions,” Phys. Lett. B 679, 177 (2009). “Search for Resonant Diphoton Production with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231801 (2009). “Relative Rates of B Meson Decays into ψ(2S) and J/ψ,” Phys. Rev. D 79, 111102(R) (2009). “Measurements of Differential Cross Sections of Z/γ*+jets+X Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 678, 45 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying into Top and Bottom Quarks in pp Collisions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191802 (2009). “Measurement of γ + b + X and γ + c + X Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192002 (2009). “Search for Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 161802 (2009). “Evidence of WW+WZ Production with Lepton+Jets Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 161801 (2009). “Search for Anomalous Top-Quark Couplings with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092002 (2009). “Measurement of the Lifetime of the Bc± Meson in the Semileptonic Decay Channel,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092001 (2009). “Search for Admixture of Scalar Top Quarks in the tt Lepton+Jets Final State at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 674, 4 (2009). “Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Ratio of Bs0 to an Orbitally Excited Ds** State:  Br(Bs0→Ds1−(2536)μ+νX),” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051801 (2009). “Measurement of the Angular and Lifetime Parameters of the Decays Bd0→J/ψK*0 and Bs0 → J/ψφ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032001 (2009).

Jonathan Sapirstein, professor of physics, published “Helium Fine Structure Theory for the Determination of Alpha,” K. Pachucki and J. Sapirstein, in the book Lepton Dipole Moments, ed. B. Lee Roberts and William J. Marciano, World Scientific, Singapore (2009).

W. Robert Scheidt, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, published “Comparison of Cyanide and Carbon Monoxide as Ligands in Iron(II) Porphyrinates” with Jianfeng Li, postdoctoral research associate in chemistry and biochemistry, B.C. Noll, and C.E. Schulz in Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2009 48 (2009): 5010–13; and published "Hydrosulfide (HS−) Coordination in Iron Porphyrinates" with Jeffrey W. Pavlik (graduate student), B.C. Noll, Allen G. Oliver (research associate professor), and C.E. Schulz in Inorganic Chemistry 49 (2010): 1017–26;  published "Oxygenation of Cobalt Porphyrinates: Coordination or Oxidation?" with Jianfeng Li (postdoctoral research associate), Bruce C. Noll, Allen G. Oliver (research associate professor), Guillermo Ferraudi (professional specialist) and A. Graham Lappin (professor) in Inorganic Chemistry 49 (2010): 2398-2406.  “Chlorido(2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octaethylporphyrinato)iron(III) dichloromethane sesquisolvate” with Allen G. Oliver, Martin K. Safo, Kristin E. Buentello in Acta Crystallographica Section E, Vol 6, Iss 7 (July 2010).

Xiaodong Tang, professor of physics, presented "Conquer the challenges: Study of charged-particle-induced reactions at stellar energies," a seminar, at the Universita di Padova – Dip. To di Fisica “Galileo Galilei,” INFN – Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy, Nov. 3, 2009; and "Study hindrance effect in sub-barrier fusion reactions,” at the International Workshop on the role of low energy fusion reactions in nuclear astrophysics: carbon burning, Villa Orladi, Anacapri, Naples, Italy, May 14–16, 2009.

Carol Tanner, professor of physics, publsihed “Observation of the Nuclear Magnetic Octupole Moment of 87Rb from Spectroscopic Measurements of Hyperfine Intervals,” Vladislav Gerginov, Carol E. Tanner, and W. R. Johnson, Canadian Journal of Physics 87 101-104 (2009).

Eugene Ulrich, professor of theology, published “Text, Hebrew, History of” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon, 2009) 5: 534a–540b; “Qumran Witness to the Developmental Growth of the Prophetic Books” in With Wisdom As A Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich (Hebrew Bible Monographs 21; ed. K.D. Dobos and M. Kószeghy; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008): 263–74; and “The Variant Textual Readings in the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll (1QIsab)” (with P.W. Flint) in Journal of Jewish Studies 60, No. 1 (2009): 60–79.

James Vanderkam, professor, The Rev. John A. O'Brien Chair in Theology (V), The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (2nd edition; Grand Rapids/ Cambridge:  Eerdmans, 2010).

Kevin Vaughan, assoc. professor in the department of biological sciences gave a presentation of scientific Talk at Aneuploidy and Chromosomal Instability Meeting in Scotland on June 17 - 24, 2010.  The title of the talk was:  Kinase Required for Kinetochore Assembly.

Mitchell Wayne, department chair of physics, published “Measurement of the t-Channel Single Top Quark Production Cross Section,” Phys. Lett. B 682, 363 (2010). “Measurement of Z/γ*+jet+X Angular Distributions in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV.” Phys. Lett. B 682, 370 (2010). “Search for Pair Production of Second Generation Scalar Leptoquarks,” Phys. Lett. B 671, 224 (2009). “Search for a Scalar or Vector Particle Decaying into Zγ in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 671, 349 (2009). “Determination of the Strong Coupling Constant from the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,”  Published 12/29/09:  Phys. Rev. D 80, 111107 (2009). “Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width,”  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 231802 (2009). “Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in Final States with Two Leptons,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 092006 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Top Quark Decays,” Phys. Lett. B 682, 278 (2009). “Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Searches for Quark Compositeness and Extra Spatial Dimensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 191803 (2009). “Measurement of the WW Production Cross Section with Dilepton Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Limits on Anomalous Trilinear Gauge Couplings,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 191801 (2009). “Combination of tt Cross Section Measurements and Constraints on the Mass of the Top Quark and its Decay into Charged Higgs Bosons,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 071102 (2009). “Measurement of the W Boson Mass,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 141801 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons in Decays of Top Quarks,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 051107 (2009). “Measurement of Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings from WW + WZ → lνjj Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. D 80, 053012 (2009). “Direct Measurement of the Mass Difference Between Top and Antitop Quarks,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 132001 (2009). “A Novel Method for Modeling the Recoil in W Boson Events at Hadron Colliders,” Nucl. Instrum. Methods in Phys. Res. A 609, 250 (2009). “Observation of Single Top-Quark Production,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009). “Search for Dark Photons from Supersymmetric Hidden Valleys,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081802 (2009). “Search for Associated Production of Charginos and Neutralinos in the Trilepton Final State using 2.3 fb-1 of Data,” Phys. Lett. B 680, 34 (2009). “Search for Resonant Pair Production of Neutral Long-Lived Particles Decaying to bb in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 071801 (2009). “Search for Squark Production in Events with Jets, Hadronically Decaying Tau Leptons and Missing Transverse Energy at √s = 1.96 TeV, Phys. Lett. B 680, 24 (2009). “Search for Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons in the h → aa → μμ μμ, μμ ττ Channels using pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061801 (2009). “Measurement of the tt Production Cross Section and Top Quark Mass Extraction Using Dilepton Events in pp Collisions,” Phys. Lett. B 679, 177 (2009). “Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Tau Final States,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 251801 (2009). “Search for Resonant Diphoton Production with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 231801 (2009). “Relative Rates of B Meson Decays into ψ(2S) and J/ψ,” Phys. Rev. D 79, 111102(R) (2009). “Measurements of Differential Cross Sections of Z/γ*+jets+X Events in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 678, 45 (2009). “Measurement of the Zγ → ννγ Production Cross Section and Limits on Anomalous ZZγ and Zγγ Couplings in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 201802 (2009). “Search for Charged Higgs Bosons Decaying into Top and Bottom Quarks in pp Collisions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 191802 (2009). “Measurement of γ + b + X and γ + c + X Production Cross Sections in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 192002 (2009). “Search for Long-Lived Charged Massive Particles with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 161802 (2009). “Evidence of WW+WZ Production with Lepton+Jets Final States in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 161801 (2009). “Search for the Lightest Scalar Top Quark in Events with Two Leptons in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 675, 289 (2009). “Search for Anomalous Top-Quark Couplings with the DØ Detector,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092002 (2009). “Evidence for the Decay Bs0→Ds(*)Ds(*) and a Measurement of ΔΓsCP/Γs ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 091801 (2009). “Measurement of the Lifetime of the Bc± Meson in the Semileptonic Decay Channel,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 092001 (2009). “Search for Admixture of Scalar Top Quarks in the tt Lepton+Jets Final State at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Lett. B 674, 4 (2009). “Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons at High tanβ in the b(h/H/A)→bτ+τ− Channel,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051804 (2009). “Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions in the Dielectron and Diphoton Channels in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051601 (2009). “Search for Associated W and Higgs Boson Production in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051803 (2009). “Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Ratio of Bs0 to an Orbitally Excited Ds** State:  Br(Bs0→Ds1−(2536)μ+νX),”  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 051801 (2009). “Measurement of the Angular and Lifetime Parameters of the Decays Bd0→J/ψK*0 and Bs0→J/ψφ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 032001 (2009). “Search for pair production of second generation scalar leptoquarks,” Phys. Lett. B 671, 224 (2009).

Samir Younés, associate professor of architecture, published “Georgetown Master plan at Corbeanca, Romania”, with L. Krier and J. Sepehri in Léon Krier, The Architecture of Community (Island Press, 2009): 122–3, 128–9, 196–7; and “The Dominance of Modernist Ideology in the Charters of Athens and Venice” in The Venice Charter Revisited, M. Hardy Ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2009) 24–37.  Published: "Type, Character, and Style", "The Corbeanca Masterplan", and "The Masterplan for Pantelleria"  in The New Palladians, A. Sagharchi & L. Steil Eds., Artmedia, London, 2010.