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Last: 5/21/2008
Forest currently teaches calculus-based introductory physics, upper-level mechanics, and electromagnetic theory. His research interests include glueball searches and charm particle spectroscopy. He is currently a member of the E831/FOCUS collaboration studying photoproduction of charm particles at the Wide Band Photon Lab at Fermilab. Research Interests - T. Forest Davenport, III Forest's research interests are in the field of experimental elementary particle physics. The study of elementary particles is basic to an understanding of the structure of our world. It is currently believed that nucleons, i.e., protons and neutrons, are composed of more fundamental particles called quarks, of which there are thought to be six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top. These quarks are bound together by particles called gluons in order to form the particles that are observed in the laboratory. Forest has collaborated on an experiment at Fermilab that searched for particles consisting only of gluons, the so-called glueballs. He has also studied the production of phi mesons (bound states of strange and anti-strange quarks) that are produced in high energy collisions of protons and nucleons. Since 1988, Forest has been associated with the E687/E831 Collaboration at Fermilab in a series of experiments designed to study states containing charm quarks that are produced using a high energy photon beam and a large multiparticle spectrometer system (the Fermilab Wide Band Photon Lab). Selected Publications 1. FOCUS Collaboration (J. M. Link et al.), "Study of the D0 → K+K-π+π- Decay," Physics Letters B 610, 225 (2005). 2. FOCUS Collaboration (J. M. Link et al.), "A Study of D0 → KS0KS0X Decay Channels," Physics Letters B 607, 59 (2005). 3. FOCUS Collaboration (J. M. Link et al.), "Charm-Anticharm Baryon Production Asymmetries in Photon-Nucleon Interactions," Physics Letters B 581, 39 (2004). 4. FOCUS Collaboration (J. M. Link et al.), "Study of the Decay Mode D0 → K-K-K+π+," Physics Letters B 575, 190 (2003). 5. E687 Collaboration (P. L. Frabetti et al.), "Evidence for a Narrow Dip Structure at 1.9 GeV/c2 in 3π+3π- Diffractive Photoproduction," Physics Letters B 514, 240 (2001). 6. E687 Collaboration (P. L. Frabetti et al.), "A New Measurement of the Lifetime of the Ξc+," Physics Letters B 427, 211 (1998). 7. E687 Collaboration (P. L. Frabetti et al.), "Observation of a Narrow State Decaying into Ξc0π+," Physics Letters B 426, 403 (1998).
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