Professor Heintz carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Tuebingen in Germany and obtained his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 1991. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University and a Wilson Fellow at Fermi National Lab before joining the faculty at Boston University in 1999 as an assistant professor. He moved to Brown University in 2009 as a full professor.
Heintz studies the fundamental building blocks of matter. Their interactions are described by the standard model of elementary particle physics. Heintz is interested in testing the validity of this model at very high energies. Understanding the behaviour of matter at the highest energies is important to understand how our Universe evolved from the Big Bang to its current state. Heintz has been a member of the CUSB and D0 Collaborations. Presently, Heintz carries out his research as a member of the CMS Collaboration at CERN.
Heintz has carried out a measurements of the W boson mass and of the top quark mass and production cross section, and conducted searches for 4th generation and vector-like quarks, KK resonances, new massive gauge bosons and Higgs pair production. Heintz has lead the development and construction of the Level 2 Silicon Track Trigger for the D0 Experiment and the Frontend Electronics for the phase 1 upgrade of the Forward Hadron Calorimeter for the CMS Experiment. Heintz is interested in development of radiation hard silicon sensors. Presently, he is co-leading the development of silicon modules for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Outer Tracker for the CMS Experiment.
"Measurement of the top-quark mass in ttbar events with dilepton final states in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV", CMS Collaboration, Eur.Phys.J. C72 (2012) 2202.
"Search for pair produced fourth-generation up-type quarks in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with a lepton in the final state", CMS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B718 (2012) 307-328.
"Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC", CMS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 30-61.
"Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the D0 Detector", D0 Collaboration, Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 151804.
"Search for a Narrow ttbar Resonance in ppbar Collisions at √s=1.96 TeV", D0 Collaboration, Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 051101.
"Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a W pair in the fully leptonic final state in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV", CMS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 91-113.
"Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section and the top quark mass in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV", CMS Collaboration, JHEP 1107:049,2011.
"Search for Anomalous Wtb Couplings in Single Top Quark Production", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 221801 (2008).
"Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons with 1 fb-1 of Data from ppbar Collisions at √s=1.96 TeV", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev Lett. 100, 091802 (2008).
"Evidence for production of single top quarks and first direct measurement of |V_tb|", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 181802 (2007).
"Search for Techniparticles Decaying into e+jets at D0", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 221801 (2007).
"Measurement of the top quark mass in the dilepton channel", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 655, 7 (2007).
"The Upgraded D0 Detector", D0 Collaboration, Nucl. Instr. and Methods A 565, 463 (2006) [physics/0507191]
"Improved Measurement of the Top Quark Mass", D0 Collaboration, Nature 429, 638 (2004).
"Search for a Fourth Generation t′ Quark in pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 082001 (2011).
"Observation of Single Top-Quark Production",D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 092001 (2009).
"Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Channel", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev D 60, 052001 (1999)
"Measurement of the W Boson Mass", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Review D 58, 092003 (1998)
"A Measurement of the W Boson Mass at the Fermilab pbarp Collider", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Letters 80, 3008 (1998)
"Measurement of the Top Quark Mass Using Dilepton Events", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Letters 80, 2063 (1998)
"Observation of the Top Quark", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Letters 74, 2632 (1995)
"Sequential decays of the Upsilon''", U. Heintz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 66: 1563-1566,1991.
"CUSB-II: A High precision electromagnetic spectrometer", R.D. Schamberger et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A309: 450-464,1991.
"Hyperfine splitting of B mesons and B(s) production at the Upsilon (5S)", J. Lee- Franzini, U. Heintz, D.M.J. Lovelock, M. Narain, R.D. Schamberger, J. Willins, C. Yanagisawa, P. Franzini, P.M. Tuts, Phys. Rev. Lett.65: 2947-2950,1990.
"Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in ppbar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV", D0 Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 192004 (2008).
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | PhD | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 1991 | MA | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Postdoctoral Research Scientist | Columbia University, Physics | 1991-1994 | New York, New York, USA |
| Graduate Research Assistant | SUNY Stony Brook , Physics | 1985-1991 |
2017 Distinguished Researcher - LHC Physics Center at Fermilab
2010 URA Visiting Scholar - Universities Research Association
2009 Fellow - American Physical Society
2006 Mercator Visiting Professor at Universität Freiburg - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2001 Outstanding Junior Investigator - U.S. Department of Energy
2001 Cottrell Scholar - Research Corporation
1999 Sloan Research Fellow - A. P. Sloan Foundation
1995 Wilson Fellow, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Cutts, David | Professor Emeritus of Physics |
| Landsberg, Greg | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics |
| Narain, Meenakshi | Professor of Physics, Chair of Physics |
| Professor. Brown University, 2009-Present |
| Visiting Professor. Université de Strasbourg, 2008-2008 |
| Visiting Professor. University of Freiburg, 2006-2006 |
| Guest Scientist. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 2003-2003 |
| Associate Professor. Boston University, 2003-2009 |
| Assistant Professor. Boston University, 1997-2003 |
| Associate Scientist (Wilson Fellow). Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, 1995-1999 |
| PHYS 0030 - Basic Physics A |
| PHYS 0050 - Foundations of Mechanics |
| PHYS 0060 - Foundations of Electromagnetism and Modern Physics |
| PHYS 0070 - Analytical Mechanics |
| PHYS 0160 - Introduction to Relativity, Waves and Quantum Physics |
| PHYS 0560 - Experiments in Modern Physics |
| PHYS 1560 - Modern Physics Laboratory |
