First Name
Christopher
Last Name
Hearty
Position
Professor/IPP Scientist
Office Room
Hennings 268
Lab Room
Hennings 222
Tel (Office)
(604) 822-9163
Email
hearty@phas.ubc.ca
Research Groups
Students Wanted
actively recruiting
Additional Links
Bachelor's Degree
Simon Fraser University, 1982, Mathematics and Physics
Doctoral Degree
University of Washington, 1987
Employment History
Postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1987-1994
Awards
APS Fellow, September 2015
The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, split between 5 experiments, including T2K
Committees and Service
Chair, teaching peer review committee
LHCb chief reviewer, CERN LHCC committee
Research Area
Particle & Nuclear Physics
Research Field
Subatomic Physics Belle II (see my research web site: http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~hearty/hearty.html)
Research Topics
Direct searches for new physics in e+ e- collisions; dark sector; light Higgs
Selected Publications
- M. Duerr, T. Ferber, C. Hearty, F. Kahlhoefer, K. Schmidt-Hoberg and P. Tunney. Invisible and displaced dark matter signatures at Belle II. J. High Energy Physics (2020). 2020: 39.
- Belle II collab., Search for an invisibly decaying Z' boson at Belle II in e+e- → μ+μ- (e+μ-) plus missing energy final states, Phys. Rev. Lett 124 (2020) 141801.
- BaBar collab., Search for a stable 6-quark state at BaBar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122 (2019) 072002.
- M. J. Dolan, T. Ferber, C. Hearty, F. Kahlhoefer, K. Schmidt-Hoberg, Revised constraints and Belle II sensitivity for visible and invisible axion-like particles. J. High Energy Phys. (2017) 2017: 94.
- BaBar collab., Search for a light Higgs resonance in radiative decays of the ϒ(1S) with a charm tag, Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 071102(R).
- BaBar collab., Search for a dark photon in e+e- collisions at BaBar, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (2014) 201801.
- J.F. Caron et al, Improved particle identification using cluster counting in a full-length drift chamber prototype, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 735 (2014) 169.
- BaBar collab., Observation of Time-reversal violation in the B0 meson system, Phys. Rev. Lett 109 (2012) 211801.
- BaBar collab., Evidence for an excess of B --> D(*) tau nu decays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 101802.
- BaBar collab., Search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson in the radiative decay Upsilon --> gamma A0, Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 221803.
- N. Abgrall et al, Time Projection Chambers for the T2K Near Detectors, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A637 (2011) 25-46.