Faculty

MARKUS KLUTE
Assistant Professor of Physics

MARKUS KLUTE, Assistant Professor of Physics

Name: Markus Klute

Title(s): Assistant Professor of Physics

Email: klute@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 252-1589

Assistant: Anna Maria Convertino (617) 253-2391

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 24-508
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

High Energy Physics

Research Interests

Markus Klute's research interest is particle physics at high energy colliders, both in the design, construction and commissioning of particle detectors, and in the analysis of the data collected. The central focus of his research is the origin of elementary particle masses. Currently, the best idea is that elementary particles acquire mass by interacting with a Higgs field. The Higgs sector of the Standard Model explains how quarks, charged leptons, and W and Z bosons acquire mass. The discovery, or the exclusion, of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will shed light on the fundamental question of the origin of mass and the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. It has been established in many studies that a Standard Model Higgs boson can be discovered over the full mass range of interest. In the near future the LHC at CERN will start colliding protons at unprecedented energies. They hope to find many exciting and entirely new phenomena.

Biographical Sketch

Markus Klute joins the MIT Physics Department in July 2009 as an Assistant Professor. He received his Diploma and Ph.D. in 2004 from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhems University, Bonn, Germany, with research on the OPAL, ATLAS and DZero experiments. After earning his Ph.D., Klute joined MIT as a postdoctoral associate and later as a research scientist, working on the CDF and CMS experiments. In 2007 he accepted a position as an Associate Professor with tenure at Goerg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, where he started a research group on the ATLAS experiment before returning to MIT.

Selected Publications

  • A. Abulencia et al., CDF Collaboration, "Measurement of the helicity fractions of W bosons from top quark decays using fully reconstructed t anti-t events with CDF II", Phys.Rev.D75:052001,2007., hep-ex/0612011.
  • V. M. Abazov et al., D0 Collaboration, "Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in ppbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV in dilepton final states", Phys.Lett.B626, 55 (2005), hep-ex/0505082.
  • V. M. Abazov et al., D0 Collaboration, "Measurement of the ttbar production cross section in ppbar collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV using kinematic characteristics of  lepton + jets events", Phys.Lett.B626, 45 (2005), hep-ex/0504043.
  • S. Asai et al, "Prospects for the Search for a Standard Model Higgs Boson in ATLAS using Vector Boson Fusion", Eur.Phys.J. C32S2 (2004) 19-54, hep-ph/0402254.
  • G. Abbiendi et al., OPAL Collaboration, "Decay mode independent searches for new scalar bosons with the OPAL detector at LEP", Eur. Phys. J.C27:311-329,2003.