Email: fisherp@mit.edu Phone: (617) 253-8561 Fax: (617) 253-4100 Address: Building 26, Room 541 Related Links: BaBar Experiment at SLAC Prof. Fisher's Home Page: "The Fisher Files"

Research Interests

Professor Peter Fisher's main activities are the experimental detection of dark matter using a new kind of detector with directional sensitivity and understanding the weak interactions using tau decays detector with the BaBar detector. His other projects include neutrino physics,  wireless power transfer, pedagogical work on electromagnetic radiation and development of new kinds of particle detectors.

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Biographical Sketch

Professor Fisher was born on December 26, 1959, in San Francisco, California. He received a B. S. in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1988.

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Selected Publications

Neutrino oscillation experiments at the Gösgen nuclear power reactor. By Caltech-SIN-TUM Collaboration (G. Zacek et al.). 1986. Published in Phys.Rev.D 34:2621-2636,1986.

Final report on the search for neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 from the Gotthard underground experiment. By D. Reusser, M. Treichel, F. Boehm, P. Fisher, K. Gabathuler, H.E. Henrikson, V. Jorgens, L.W. Mitchell, C. Nussbaum, J.L. Vuilleumier (Neuchatel U. & Caltech & PSI, Villigen). Oct 1991. 4pp. Published in Phys.Rev.D 45:2548-2551,1992.

Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in Xe-136 with a time projection chamber. By J.C. Vuilleumier, J. Busto, J. Farine, V. Joergens, L.W. Mitchell, M. Treichel, J.L. Vuilleumier (Neuchatel U.), H.T. Wong, F. Boehm, P. Fisher, H.E. Henrikson, D.A. Imel, M.Z. Iqbal, B.M. O'Callaghan-Hay, J. Thomas (Caltech), K. Gabathuler (PSI, Villigen). 1993. Published in Phys.Rev.D 48:1009-1020,1993.

A measurement of tau polarization in Z0 decays. By L3 Collaboration (O. Adriani et al.). CERN-PPE-92-132, Aug 1992. 21pp. Published in Phys.Lett.B 294:466-478,1992.

Neutrino mass and oscillation. By Peter Fisher (MIT), Boris Kayser (NSF, Wash., D.C.), Kevin S. McFarland (Rochester U.). LNS-99-288, NSF-PT-99-1, UR-1569, MIT-LNS-99-288, Jun 1999. 43pp. Published in Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci. 49:481,1999. e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9906244.

Measurements of mass, width and gauge couplings of the W boson at LEP. By L3 Collaboration (M. Acciarri et al.). CERN-PPE-97-098, CERN-PPE-97-98, Jul 1997. 21pp. Published in Phys.Lett.B 413:176-190,1997.

Search for anti-helium in cosmic rays. By AMS Collaboration (J. Alcaraz et al.). Feb 2000. 18pp. Published in Phys.Lett.B 461:387-396,1999. e-Print Archive: hep-ex/0002048.

Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances. Andre Kurs,  et al.
Science 83 (2007); 317.

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