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Amber JENKINS
Imperial College London

amber.jenkins@imperial.ac.uk

For my Ph.D. thesis I am working on D-Zero, one of the main detectors operating at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab. I am currently searching for Z->bbbar decays in D-Zero data. This decay channel is a very important testbed for Higgs physics at the Tevatron and has not yet been observed at D-Zero. In addition, I have performed an extensive analysis of mass resolutions and jet energy resolutions in the ZH->e+e-bbbar and Z->bbbar channels. Such studies are vital for optimizing the b-jet resolution and bbbar mass attainable. My hardware work is primarily focused on the D-Zero Calorimeter. This includes monitoring the performance of the calorimeter and data quality, as well as data analysis. I am also involved in the monitoring of D-Zeroís Forward Proton Detector and, in the future, the Muon System.

Josef JURAN
Silesian Univ., Opava
josefjuran@yahoo.com

I am a graduate student of high energy physics at Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. I have just completed the first year of study and am starting work on my PhD thesis. Its title is "Some hadronic mechanisms of the J/psi suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions".
The aim is to assess the hadronic background to the possible J/psi suppresion by a quark-gluon plasma. My work is theoretical, but closely related to the experiments completed or running at SPS and RHIC and planned for LHC. Its novelty is inclusion of the three-meson initial states into calculation of the J/psi disintegration in a hadron gas.

Catherine Cart 06/2003