Mary Convery

CDF QCD group (convener 2005-2006)

High Q^2 QCD Physics at the Tevatron Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 2006, Duke University, Durham, NC, 5/22/2006.

Proposal for Level-2 Calorimeter Trigger Upgrade A. Bhatti, M. Convery, M. Dell'Orso, G. Flanagan, H. Frisch, P. Giannetti, O. Gonzalez, M. Jones, T. Liu, D. Lucchesi, M. Piendibene, L. Ristori, L. Rogondino, V. Rusu, L. Sartori, S. Torre, V. Veszpremi, S.M. Wang, CDF Note 8415
talk (ppt) (restricted)

CDF diffractive studies

publications

Results on Diffraction at CDF M. E. Convery for the CDF Collaboration, Acta Phys. Polon. B{\bf 36}, 665 (2005).

Inclusive Double-Pomeron Exchange at the Fermilab Tevatron pbar-p Collider D. Acosta et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 141601 (2004).

Fermilab Today " Result of the Week " 11/6/03

Central Pseudorapidity Gaps in Events with a Leading Antiproton at the Fermilab Tevatron pbar-p Collider D. Acosta et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 011802 (2003).

Double Diffraction Dissociation at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider T. Affolder et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 141802 (2001).

Double Diffraction Dissociation in pbar-p Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron M. E. Convery for the CDF Collaboration, Pub. Proceedings of The Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF 2000) of the American Physical Society, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Aug. 9-12, 2000.

CDF Results on Hard Diffraction and Rapidity Gap Physics M.E. Convery for the CDF Collaboration, in QCD and Multiparticle Production, edited by I. Sarcevic and C.-I Tan (World Scientific, Singapore, 2000) pp. 275-282.

Events with a Rapidity Gap between Jets in pbar-p Collisions at sqrt(s)= 630 GeV F. Abe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5278 (1998).

talks

Low-Luminosity Run for the CDF Diffractive Physics Program (restricted)
Results on Diffraction at CDF XXXIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sonoma County, CA, 7/31/2004.
Central Rapidity Gaps in Events with a Leading Antiproton at CDF Workshop on Small-x and Diffractive Physics, FNAL, Batavia, IL, 9/18/2003.
Double Diffraction Dissociation in pbar-p Collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron DPF2000, Columbus, OH, 8/10/2000.
CDF Results on Hard Diffraction and Rapidity Gap Physics XXIX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 8/11/1999.
Review of Recent CDF Diffraction Results Workshop on QCD and Weak Boson Physics in Run II, FNAL, Batavia, IL, 11/4/1999.
Soft Double Diffractive Excitation at CDF Workshop on QCD and Weak Boson Physics in Run II, FNAL, Batavia, IL, 6/3/1999.
Events with Rapidity Gaps between Jets Workshop on Small-x and Diffractive Physics, FNAL, Batavia, IL, 9/19/1998.

CDF Notes (access restricted)

Measurements and Calibrations of Leading Antiproton Momentum Loss in Diffractive Interactions M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, C. Mesropian, K. Terashi, CDF Note 7914.
Proposal of Low Luminosity Runs M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, K. Hatakeyama, C. Mesropian and K. Terashi, CDF Note 7743.
Inclusive double pomeron exchange events in Roman Pot triggered data M.E. Convery, K. Goulianos, K. Hatakeyama, CDF Note 5865.
Central rapidity gaps in events with a Roman-pot track: double gaps M.E. Convery, K. Goulianos, K. Hatakeyama, CDF Note 5841.
Central rapidity gaps in minimum bias events: double diffraction M.E. Convery, K. Goulianos, CDF Note 4947.
Rapidity gaps in opposite-side dijets at $\sqrt{s}=630$ GeV A. Bhatti, M.E. Convery, K. Goulianos, C. Mesropian, CDF Note 4358.

CDF Run II forward detectors

talk: The CDF Forward Detectors (restricted)

Energy Calibration of the MiniPlug Calorimeters (restricted) M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, A. Hamilton, C. Mesropian, K. Terashi, CDF Note 7913.
Diffractive Triggers (restricted) A. Bhatti, M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, K. Terashi, CDF Note 6121.
Commissioning the Beam Shower Counters (restricted) A. Bocci, M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, K. Terashi, CDF Note 5609.
Readout of the Roman Pot Fiber Tracker (restricted) M. Convery, C. Drennan, M. Gallinaro, J. Wu, CDF Note 5487.
Electronics for the Forward Detectors (restricted) A. Bhatti, M. Convery, M. Gallinaro, K. Goulianos, S. Lami, CDF Note 5248.

Information about Roman pot fiber readout and forward detector calibrations

Instructions for BSC/Miniplug electronics calibrations
Instructions for Roman-pot electronics calibrations

CDF detector operations manager (2004)

presentations on CDF detector operations status

CDF Run 2 shower-maximum electronics and calibrations

Final Tests for the SMD/SQUID Qualification Before Production (restricted) K. Byrum, M. Convery, G. Drake, M. Lindgren, R. Keup, S. Kuhlmann, J. Proudfoot, J. Wu, CDF Note 5345.

Shower-max electronics documentation

Instructions for Shower-max electronics calibrations

MBR

User's guide and update of the MBR minimum-bias event generator (restricted) A. Bhatti, M.E. Convery and K. Goulianos, CDF Note 5371.

The MBR (Minimum Bias Rockefeller) Monte Carlo was developed to generate minimum-bias (soft) collisions with the properties observed in experiments at the ISR and SPS colliders, with careful attention paid to elastic and diffractive scattering. Elastic, single-diffractive (SD), double-diffractive (DD), as well as inelastic non-diffractive ``hard core'' (HC) events can be generated.
Phenomenological models are used to determine the total and differential cross sections for these processes. The available mass in an event, which is the center-of-mass energy in a HC event or the diffractive masses in SD or DD events, is then ``decayed'' into particles. The charged and total multiplicity, the pseudorapidity distribution, and the transverse momentum distribution are also obtained from phenomenological relations determined from experimental data.

my PhD work

was on the MiniMax experiment 864 at the C0 collision region of the Fermilab Tevatron

MiniMax home page
A Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensate at the Fermilab Tevatron MiniMax Collaboration (T.C. Brooks et al.), Phys. Rev. D 61, 032003 (2000).
A Disoriented Chiral Condensate Search at the Fermilab Tevatron M.E. Convery, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, May 1997, thesis advisor Cyrus Taylor.
Analysis of Charged-Particle/Photon Observables in Hadronic Multiparticle Production MiniMax Collaboration (T.C. Brooks et al.), Phys. Rev. D 55, 5667 (1997).

Experimental HEP at Rockefeller --- CDF --- Fermilab --- Fermilab at work

convery@fnal.gov
last updated September 2004