FTPI Research Assistant Sergiy Dubynskiy has been awarded the Stanwood Johnston Fellowship for the 2008/09 academic year. Dubynskiy is a graduate student working towards his Ph.D. degree with Misha Voloshin, FTPI Director and Associate Director of Elementary Particle Physics. Together they are conducting active research in phenomenology of new elementary particles. Over the past two years Dubynskiy has co-authored seven theoretical papers published or accepted for publication in the leading physics journals. While performing his research, Dubynskiy has gained unique expertise in theoretical methods for studies of the newly discovered resonances near the so-called charm threshold, including one of the most intriguing known particle physics objects: the resonance X(3872), which is likely a state of new type, called "molecular." The most recent experiments have found related or similar heavier states, which are yet to be understood theoretically. These studies of the new strongly interacting objects will be an area of extensive experimental and theoretical research in the years to come. |
Dubynskiy during a break at the recent CAQCD-08 workshop. |
Most recently Dubynskiy is working with his thesis advisor on the new idea that some of the observed heavy particles are in fact objects of another new type, where a heavy quark-antiquark system is embedded in a highly excited light-quark resonance. The Stanwood Johnston Fellowship will provide Dubynskiy with tuition and a stipend to support his continued work through the 2008-2009 academic year. The Fellowship was established to support students in the fields of biochemistry, chemistry, geology, geophysics, microbiology, or physics. *** |
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