Cecilia Gerber, PhD
UIC Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Physics
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About
Professor Gerber's research is focused on studying the properties of the Top Quark and looking for evidence of the Higgs Boson at hadron collider experiments. Her technical responsibilities are centered in silicon microstrip trackers and b-quark identification. She is a member of the D-Zero collaboration at Fermilab and the CMS collaboration at CERN. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
Selected Publications
- “The CMS Phase-1 pixel detector upgrade” Journal of Instrumentation 16 P02027 (2021)
- Search for resonant tt production in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV J. High Energ. Phys. (2019) 2019: 31
- “Searches for new physics using the ttbar invariant mass distribution in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 211804 (2013)
- “Observation of Single Top Quark Production”, Physical Review Letters 103, 092001 (2009); PRL Editors’ Suggestion.
- “Evidence for Production of Single Top Quarks and First Direct Measurement of |Vtb|”, Physical Review Letters 98, 181802 (2007); TOPCITE = 100+ and PRL Editors’ Suggestion.
- “Measurement of the top pair production cross section in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV using secondary vertex b tagging”, Physical Review D 74, 112004 (2006)
- “Measurement of the Shape of the Transverse Momentum Distribution of W Bosons Produced in pbarp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Letters 80, 5498 (1998).
- “W and Z Boson Production in proton-antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV”, Phys. Rev. Letters 75, 1456 (1995).
Education
Physics Diploma (1990), University of Buenos Aires
PhD, Physics (1995), University of Buenos Aires