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Although there is usually a single recipient, the committee chose three winners this year because the combination of their efforts in determining the frequency with which a Bs meson changes back and forth between its matter and antimatter states.

2006 - Guillelmo Gomez Ceballos
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Guillelmo Gomez Ceballos of the University of Cantabria, developed new analytic methods to separate Bs meson decays from other B meson decays, thereby squeezing more information out of the same sets of data.

   

2006 - Ivan Furic
Ivan Furic of the University of Chicago, made an electronics board that allowed the triggering system to recognize and record the coveted hadronic Bs meson decays.

   

2006 - Stephanie Menzemer
Stephanie Menzemer of Universitat Heidelberg, by determining the charge of kaons produced along with the strange quark-containing mesons, Menzemer could tell whether an oscillating Bs-Bs(bar) meson began as matter or antimatter.

 

 

2005 - Reinhard Schwienhorst
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Reinhard Schwienhorst of Michigan State University received the 2005 award for his work in the development of novel multivariate techniques in the search for single top quark production. This technique effectively discriminates between the signal and backgrounds such as W+jets and top-antitop, and results in a factor of two improvement in sensitivity for this search. A single top signal should be attainable in Run 2 at the Tevatron.

 

 

2004 - Nicole Bell
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Nicole Bell of the Particle Physics Division, was the recipient of the award for 2004 in recognition of her work "determining, with colleagues, the conditions under which the cosmological neutrino abundance can differ from the value usually assumed, and for finding out how an anomalous abundance would change the implications of cosmology for neutrino mass.

 

 

2003 - Juan Cruz Estrada
Juan Cruz Estrada of the University of Rochester, and a member of the the D0 collaboration, was the recipient of the award for 2003 in recognition of his development and application of a new multivariate method to determine the top quark mass with greatly improved precision.


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