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Alfred T. Goshaw

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
277 Physics Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Professor Goshaw current research is focused on the study of Nature's most massive particles, the W and Z bosons (carriers of the weak force) and the top quark (discovered in 1994). These studies have been carried out using 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions provided by Fermilab's Tevatron, and analyzed using the CDF detector. Current studies concentrate on measurements of the tri-linear coupling among the photon, W boson and Z boson, as tests of the non-abelian character of the electroweak …

Current Appointments & Affiliations


James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics · 2019 - Present Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Physics · 2019 - Present Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published July 17, 2019
Duke Physicists Share Prize for Discovery of the Top Quark

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Recent Publications


Observation of WWW Production in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector.

Journal Article Physical review letters · August 2022 This Letter reports the observation of WWW production and a measurement of its cross section using 139  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Events with tw ... Full text Cite

High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · April 2022 The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs boson was the last missing component of the model. After observation of ... Full text Cite

Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in Z-Boson Decays with τ Leptons with the ATLAS Detector.

Journal Article Physical review letters · December 2021 A search for lepton-flavor-violating Z→eτ and Z→μτ decays with pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses 139  fb^{-1} of Run 2 pp collisions at sqrt[s]=13  TeV and is combined with the results of a similar ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear Particle Physics at TUNL and Duke

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2022

REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Nuclear Physics at TUNL/Duke University

Inst. Training Prgm or CMESenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2019

Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 1991 - 2013

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Wisconsin, Madison · 1966 Ph.D.