Stefan Spanier

Professor

Experimental High Energy Physics
Office: 607 Science and Engineering Research Facility
Phone: 865-974-0597
sspanier@utk.edu
UT CMS Group Website

Brief Vita

• PhD, Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (1994)
• Diploma in Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (1991)


• Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2012)
• Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2008-2012)
• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2002-2008)
• Research Associate, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) (1998-2002)
• Research Associate, University of Zurich and CERN, Switzerland (1994-1998)

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Selected Honors

• University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Senior Research/Achievement Award (2013)
• University of Tennessee QUEST Scholar of the Week (2010)
• Wolfgang Panofsky Fellowship at Stanford (2002)
• CERN Fellowship (1995)

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Research Areas

CMS Group at UT

• Search for New Physics with Rare Higgs Decays
• Pixel Detectors (Silicon, Diamond)
• CP Violation
• Meson Resonances

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Selected Recent Publications

• Measurements of Higgs boson production cross sections and couplings in the diphoton decay channel at root s=13 TeV
  CMS Collaboration
  Journal of High Energy Physics 7, 027 (2021)

• Observation of a New Excited Beauty Strange Baryon Decaying to Xi(-)(b)pi(+)pi(-)
  CMS Collaboration
  Physical Review Letters, 126 (25) 252003 (2021)

• Search for Higgs and Z boson decays to J/ψ or Y pairs in the four-muon finalstate in proton-proton collisions at √s=13TeV
  CMS Collaboration
  Phys. Lett. B. (797) 134811 (2019)

• Search for decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ρ or ϕ meson
  CMS Collaboration
  JHEP 11:039 (2020)

• Realization of deep 3D metal electrodes in diamond radiation detectors
  Wulz T, Gerding W, Lavrik N, Briggs D, Srijanto B, Lester K, Hensley D, Spanier S, Lukosi E.
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 222101 (2018)