Research interests lie in experimental particle physics. Presently, our group is part of the L3 collaboration at the LEP storage ring at CERN, Geneva. For this experiment, we have designed and constructed a Bismuth Germanate (BGO) forward-backward calorimeter which is used for luminosity and two photon physics measurements. Standard Model parameters have been deduced from precision measurements of the Z⁰ mass, total width, and partial widths into electron, muon and tau pairs. Limits on the Higgs mass have been set. The group will participate in the CMS detector development for the LHC at CERN.

Selected Publications

L3 Collaboration, M. Acciarri et al., "Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in e⁺e^- Interactions at sqrt(s) = 192-202 GeV". Phys. Lett. B 503, 21 (2001).

L3 Collaboration, M. Acciarri et al., "Search for Heavy Neutral and Charged Leptons in e⁺e^- Annihilation at LEP". Phys. Lett. B 517, 75 (2001).

CLEO Collaboration, A.H. Mahmood et al., "Measurement of the L_c Lifetime". Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2232 (2001).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Search for Charginos and Neutralinos in e+e- collisions at Sqrt(s) = 189 GeV," Phys. Lett. B 472 (2000) 420-433.

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Search for Excited Leptons at Sqrt(s) = 189 GeV," Phys. Let. B 473 (2000) 177-185.

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Measurement of the Probability of Gluon Splitting into Charmed Quarks in Hadronic Z Decays," Phys. Let. B 476 (2000) 243-255.

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Measurement of the Effective Weak Mixing Angle by Jet-Charge Asymmetry in Hadronic Decays of the Z Boson," Phys. Lett. B 439, 225 (1998).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Measurement of the Michel Parameters and the Average Tau-Neutrino Helicity From Tau Decays at LEP," Phys. Lett. B 438, 405 (1998).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Measurement of W-Pair Cross Sections in e⁺e^- Interactions at Sqrt(s) = 183 GeV and W-Decay Branching Fractions," Phys. Lett. B 436, 437 (1998).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Measurement of Radiative Bhabha and Quasi-Real Compton Scattering," Phys. Lett. B 439, 183 (1998).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Study of Anomalous ZZGamma and ZGammaGamma Couplings at LEP," Phys. Lett. B 436, 187 (1998).

L3 Collaboration -- M. Acciarri et al., "Test of CP Invariance in Z -> mu⁺ mu^- gamma Decay," Phys. Lett. B 436, 428 (1998).