JOHN HOBBS
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
john.hobbs@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8107, Physics D-139
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Jul 02)

Biography
John Hobbs is a Professor at Stony Brook University carrying out research in experiment Particle Physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991 for thesis work on the OPAL experiment at the CERN LEP collider. After a CERN Scientific Associate position with OPAL, he moved to Fermilab in 1993 to work on the DZero experiment as a post doc and then as a Wilson Fellow. As a DZero post doc, he actively participated in the top quark discovery analyses. He joined the Stony Brook Physics department faculty in 1998 initially continuing with DZero, and joining the ATLAS experiment in 2008. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, a multiple time winner of the Physics and Astronomy departmental teaching award, and in 2024 he received a SUNY Chancellor's award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.

Research Statement
My primary research interest is studies of fundamental particles and their interactions, conducted at highest energy particle colliders. I am a member of the ATLAS collaboration analyzing data from collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS and CMS co-discovered the HIggs Boson, the last unobserved standard model particle, in 2012 and this guides my active research. My current primary interest is exploration of Higgs Boson decays, particularly looking for evidence of new particles in the Hdecay chain which are not predicted by the standard model. Previously, I have worked on measurements of vector boson production at the LHC, searches for new particles, measurement of the W Boson mass using DZero data, the DZero top quark discovery analyses, and tau lepton lifetime measurements.