Kevin S. McFarland
Dr. Steven Chu Professor in Physics
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Vice Provost Faculty Affairs
PhD in Physics, University of Chicago, 1994
- Office Location
- 416 Bausch & Lomb Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7076
- Fax
- (585) 276-0018
- kevin@rochester.edu
- Web Address
Biography
Professor McFarland received his ScB in mathematics and physics from Brown University in 1989. He did his graduate work in physics at the University of Chicago and received his MS in 1991 and his PhD in 1994. He held a Lederman Fellowship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1994 to 1998 and joined the University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and to Professor in 2005. Professor McFarland was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1998, a Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator in 1999, a Cottrell Scholar in 2001 and received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002. McFarland, who is also co-spokesperson of the MINERvA Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab, was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 2005. He and his collaborators on the T2K neutrino experiment are recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2015
Research Overview
Professor McFarland's interests are in the field of experimental . His primary research interest is the study of neutrino properties and their weak interactions. The ultimate goal of these high intensity accelerator-based neutrino experiments is determination of the neutrino masses and the mixing between neutrino flavors and these masses through neutrino flavor oscillation measurements. Violations of matter-antimatter symmetry may be possible in neutrino mixings, and they may offer an explanation for the origin of the dominance of matter over antimatter in today's Universe.
Professor McFarland currently works on the experiment at in Japan, and the and experiments at . He served from 2005 to 2018 as the co-spokesperson of the neutrino experiment. He collaborates with Profs. Manly, Marshall, and Bodek to form the . In the past, he worked on electroweak and top quark physics at the experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider and studied the neutrino neutral current interactions at high precision in the high energy neutrino experiment at Fermilab.
Research Interests
- experimental elementary-particle physics
Selected Publications
- Constraint on the matter–antimatter symmetry-violating phase in neutrino oscillations
T2K Collaboration
() - Neutrino-electron elastic scattering for flux determination at the DUNE oscillation experiment
Chris M. Marshall, Kevin S. McFarland, Callum Wilkinson
(Preprint) - Constraint of the MINERA medium energy neutrino flux using neutrino-electron elastic scattering
MINERvA Collaboration
() - Measurement of Neutrino Flux from Neutrino-Electron Elastic Scattering
MINERvA Collaboration
() - Nucleon binding energy and transverse momentum imbalance in neutrino-nucleus reactions
MINERvA Collaboration
() - Identification of nuclear effects in neutrino-carbon interactions at low three-momentum transfer
MINERvA Collaboration
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() - Reanalysis of bubble chamber measurements of muon-neutrino induced single pion production
Callum Wilkinson, Philip Rodrigues, Susan Cartwright, Lee Thompson, Kevin McFarland
() - Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance in a Muon Neutrino Beam
T2K Collaboration
() - Indication of Electron Neutrino Appearance from an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Muon Neutrino Beam
T2K Collaboration
() - Precise Measurement of the Neutrino Mixing Parameter θ23 from Muon Neutrino Disappearance in an Off-Axis Beam
T2K Collaboration
() - Measurement of Muon (Anti-)Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at Eν∼3.5 GeV
MINERvA Collaboration
- Direct Measurement of the W Production Charge Asymmetry in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV
CDF Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett.102, 181801 (2009) - A Precise Determination of Electroweak Parameters in Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
NuTeV Collaboration, G.P. Zeller, K.S. McFarland et al
Phys. Rev. Lett.88, 091802 (2002)
( | ) - Neutrino Mass and Oscillation
Peter Fisher, Boris Kayser, Kevin McFarland
Annual Review Nucl. Part. Sci.49, 481 (1999)
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