David M. Strom Explained

Birth Name:	David Mattill Strom
Education:	B.A. in Physics and Mathematics (1980), St. Olaf College Ph.D. in Physics (1986), University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thesis Title:	Measurement of the D^0 lifetime
Doctoral Advisor:	Sau Lan Wu

David M. Strom (born about 1959) is an experimental high energy particle physicist on the faculty of the University of Oregon.

Early life and education

Strom was born in Montana in 1957, the son of Kathryn Jean (née Mattill)^[1] and Herbert Edward Strom.^[2] He was awarded a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics in 1980 at St. Olaf College.^[3] He earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1986 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with his dissertation, Measurement of the D⁰ lifetime,^[4] advised by Sau Lan Wu.

Strom is married to Katja Heide, and they have two sons.

Career

After earning his Ph.D., Strom was a research associate at Madison for a year. He was a McCormick Fellow at the University of Chicago for two years,^[5] and he became a research associate there from 1989–1991.

Strom joined the physics faculty at the University of Oregon in 1991.^[6] He researches topics in experimental high energy physics, including "Quantum black hole production in proton-proton collisions, Higgs (in beyond the Standard Model Scenarios), triggering at hadron colliders, detectors and electronics for linear colliders, precision electroweak measurements, ATLAS".^[7]

From 2001–2002, Strom served as a member of the University Senate at the University of Oregon.^[8]

In Spring 2011, Strom was elected by the ATLAS Collaboration Board as deputy trigger coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. After serving as deputy trigger coordinator, Strom assumed the role of trigger coordinator in late 2011.^[9] The University of Oregon's Physics News said, "The ATLAS detector is massive, stretching about 150 feet long and more than 80 feet high. It is about half as big as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and weighs close to 7,000 tons, the same as the Eiffel Tower or a hundred 747 jets."^[10]

Eric Tucker reported,

On 4 July 2012, CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments.^[11]

Selected publications

Strom has principally participated in research collaborations of ATLAS,^[12] Linear Collider physics, BABAR,^[13] and OPAL.^[14]

ATLAS Collaboration

• ATLAS Collaboration . 2017-09-28 . Search for new phenomena in dijet events using 37 fb⁻¹ of pp collision data collected at s√=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector . Physical Review D . 96 . 5 . 052004 . 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.052004 . 126134103 . 2470-0010. free . 1703.09127 .
• ATLAS Collaboration . March 19, 2016 . Search for New Phenomena in Dijet Mass and Angular Distributions from pp Collisions at s√ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector . 1512.01530 . Physics Letters B . 754 . 302–322 . 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.032. 124307471 .
• ATLAS Collaboration . 2014-03-05 . Search for Quantum Black-Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass Lepton+Jet Final States Using Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and the ATLAS Detector . 1311.2006 . Physical Review Letters . 112 . 9 . 091804 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091804 . 24655244 . 204934578 . 0031-9007.
• ATLAS Collaboration . April 21, 2015 . Evidence for the Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector . 1501.04943 . Journal of High Energy Physics . 2015 . 4 . 117 . 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)117 . 2015JHEP...04..117A . 209834985 . 1029-8479.
• ATLAS Collaboration . October 7, 2013 . Evidence for the spin-0 nature of the Higgs boson using ATLAS data . 1307.1432 . Physics Letters B . 726 . 1–3 . 120–144 . 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.08.026. 2013PhLB..726..120A . 11562016 .
• ATLAS Collaboration . 2013-10-07 . Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC . Physics Letters B . en . 726 . 1 . 88–119 . 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.08.010 . 1307.1427 . 2013PhLB..726...88A . 11376/1172 . 119254183 . 0370-2693.
• The ATLAS Collaboration . 2012-09-17 . Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC . 1207.7214 . Physics Letters B . 716 . 1 . 1–29 . 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020. 2012PhLB..716....1A . 119169617 .
• The ATLAS Collaboration . 2012-01-03 . Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010 . 1110.1530 . The European Physical Journal C . 72 . 1 . 1849 . 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1849-1 . 2012EPJC...72.1849A . 204936549 . 1434-6044.

Linear Collider

• • Strom . D. . Frey . R. . Breidenbach . M. . Freytag . D. . Graf . N. . Haller . G. . Milgrome . O. . Radeka . V. . August 15, 2005 . Fine grained silicon-tungsten calorimetry for a linear collider detector . IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science . 52 . 4 . 868–873 . 10.1109/TNS.2005.852689 . 2005ITNS...52..868S . 5931713 . 1558-1578.

BABAR Collaboration

• The BABAR Collaboration . 2006-06-23 . A Search for the rare decay B0 --> tau+tau- at BABAR . hep-ex/0511015 . Physical Review Letters . 96 . 24 . 241802 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.241802 . 16907230 . 0031-9007.
• Strom . D. . Frey . R. . Breidenbach . M. . Freytag . D. . Graf . N. . Haller . G. . Milgrome . O. . Radeka . V. . 2005-08-15 . Fine grained silicon-tungsten calorimetry for a linear collider detector . IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science . 52 . 4 . 868–873 . 10.1109/TNS.2005.852689 . 2005ITNS...52..868S . 5931713 . 1558-1578.

OPAL

• The OPAL Collaboration . 2003-01-01 . Study of Z pair production and anomalous couplings in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) between 190 GeV and 209 GeV . The European Physical Journal C . en . 32 . 3 . 303–322 . 10.1140/epjc/s2003-01467-x . hep-ex/0310013 . 1434-6052.
• The OPAL Collaboration . 2004-03-01 . Tests of the standard model and constraints on new physics from measurements of fermion-pair production at 189-209 GeV at LEP . The European Physical Journal C . en . 33 . 2 . 173–212 . 10.1140/epjc/s2004-01595-9 . hep-ex/0309053 . 2004EPJC...33..173O . 16463072 . 1434-6052.
• The OPAL Collaboration . 2001-03-01 . Precise determination of the Z resonance parameters at LEP: "Zedometry" . The European Physical Journal C . en . 19 . 4 . 587–651 . 10.1007/s100520100627 . hep-ex/0012018 . 2001EPJC...19..587O . 1434-6052.
• The OPAL Collaboration . 2000-06-01 . Precision luminosity for Z⁰ lineshape measurements with a silicon-tungsten calorimeter . The European Physical Journal C . en . 14 . 3 . 373–425 . 10.1007/s100520000353 . hep-ex/9910066 . 2000EPJC...14..373O . 119010221 . 1434-6052.
• Strom . David . 2001-05-24 . Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance . hep-ex/0105076 .

Awards, honors

In 2017 Strom was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, cited "for leadership on the ATLAS experiment, particularly related to trigger and data acquisition, and for contributions to the ATLAS physics outcomes, including the discovery of the Higgs boson".^[15]

External links

• Charged particle detectors, a slide presentation by David M. Strom.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Montana, U.S., Birth Records, 1897-1988 . subscription . 2022-05-27 . www.ancestry.com.
2. Web site: August 15, 1985 . Montana, U.S., Marriage Records, 1943-1988 . subscription . 2022-05-25 . www.ancestry.com.
3. Web site: INSPIRE: David M. Strom . 2022-05-25 . inspirehep.net.
4. Strom . D.M. . 1986 . Measurement of the D⁰ lifetime . Dissertation . 197 . en . University Microfilms.
5. Web site: David Strom's CV . 2022-05-25 . pages.uoregon.edu.
6. Web site: David M. Strom Professor, Department of Physics . 2022-05-25 . old-physics.uoregon.edu.
7. Web site: David Strom College of Arts and Sciences . 2022-05-25 . cas.uoregon.edu.
8. Web site: University Senate Membership 2001-2002 . 2022-05-25 . pages.uoregon.edu.
9. News: Tucker . Eric . Spring 2011 . Trigger Man . CASCADE, UO College of Arts and Sciences . dead . May 25, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120310125433/http://cascade.uoregon.edu/spring2011/natural-sciences/trigger-man/ . March 10, 2012.
10. News: Brau . Jim . James E. Brau . Spring 2011 . Trigger Man - David Strom . Physics News . May 25, 2022.
11. Adrian Cho . 13 July 2012 . Higgs Boson Makes Its Debut After Decades-Long Search . Science . 337 . 6091 . 141–143 . 2012Sci...337..141C . 10.1126/science.337.6091.141 . 22798574.
12. Web site: INSPIRE (ATLAS) . 2022-05-27 . inspirehep.net.
13. Web site: INSPIRE (BABAR) . 2022-05-27 . inspirehep.net.
14. Web site: INSPIRE (OPAL) . 2022-05-27 . inspirehep.net.
15. Web site: APS Fellow Archive . 2022-05-25 . www.aps.org . en.