DMITRI DENISOV
Adjunct Professor
Physics and Astronomy
dmitri.denisov@stonybrook.edu | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg. 703
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2023 Nov 21)

Biography
Dmitri Denisov graduated from Moscow Physical Technical Institute and joined Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino) where he performed a series of experiments at the 70-GeV proton accelerator for his Ph.D. research. He became a worldwide expert on the development of new particle detectors for subnuclear physics experiments, including fast coordinate detectors and calorimeters based on liquid argon. Denisov joined the DZero collaboration at the Tevatron collider in 1987 and helped built a large, complex particle detector to study the world’s highest-energy collisions of protons and antiprotons at the Tevatron. In 1995, he played major role in Tevatron’s discovery of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle. In the late 1990s, his research led to the precise measurements of bottom-quark production across a wide kinematic region, which led to advances in the theoretical explanation of this process. Denisov oversaw major part of the upgrade of the DZero detector in time for the start of Tevatron second run, which began in 2001. He led successful commissioning of the DZero experiment and readied it for physics data collection. From 2004 to 2006, he was the leader of the electroweak physics group of the experiment, leading studies of the production and properties of electroweak force carriers known as W and Z bosons. In 2006, Denisov was elected spokesperson of the DZero collaboration, which comprises over 500 physicists from 20 countries. He has led the collaboration to many exciting scientific results, including the discovery of new heavy baryons containing bottom quarks, the highest-precision measurements of the W boson and top quark masses, searches for a wide spectrum of new subatomic phenomena predicted by theoretical models, and extensive hunt and then studies of the Higgs boson. The DZero collaboration published more than 300 papers during his term. Since 2015 Denisov is involved in developing physics program, accelerators and detectors for future high energy colliders. In 2019 Denisov joint Brookhaven National Laboratory to lead the laboratory particles physics program covering programs at energy, intensity, cosmic and theory frontiers. In 2022 Denisov joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Denisov serves on various advisory boards in Americas, Europe, and Asia. Denisov received the Medal for achievements in high energy physics and development of international cooperation from Czech Technical University in 2008, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 for his numerous contributions to the development of experimental high energy physics and received 2019 European Physical Society prize for the discovery and studies of the top quark.

Research Statement
My interest and expertise are experimental particle physics with the goal of understanding physics laws at the smallest possible distances and highest possible energies available for experimental observations. I am also excited by developments of new detectors for elementary particles and design and construction of large and complex detectors used in modern particle physics. I am involved in a wide range of experiments at colliders, studying neutrinos, and high precision experiments to measure properties of elementary particles with extreme precision. Studies of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are among my interests.