Todd K. Pedlar Assistant Professor Department of Physics Office: Valders Hall 152D Phone: (563)387-1628 e-mail: pedlto01@luther.edu 2006 Fall Semester Schedule
Courses Currently Taught (Fall 07): Classical Physics I Quantum Mechanics I Courses taught in past semesters: General Physics I & II & Labs -- Relativity, the Quantum and All That Foundations of Physics I (now Classical Physics I) Quantum Mech I & II  -- Analog & Digital Electronics  Energy and the Physical World -- Physical Science Paideia II: Stewardship and Sustainability: US Energy Policy		My CV     My Experiment (CLEO) Publications (as of Dec. 2005) Some Physics Links
		Non-Physics References (Dictionaries, etc.) Some Thoughts on Real Life

Research Interests:

• Particle physics: heavy quarkonium and heavy quark meson spectroscopy;

• Particle astrophysics: neutrino astronomy via detection by Cerenkov emission;

• Detector and electronics development and computer interfacing.

Selected Recent Publications

D. Cronin-Hennessy et al., (CLEO Collaboration), "Observation of the hadronic transitions c_b1,2(2 ³P_1,2)->wU(1S)," Physical Review Letters 91, 222002, 2004.

M. Andreotti et al., (E835 Collaboration), "Measurement of the two photon decay of the c_c(1 ³P₀) state of charmonium," Physics Letters B584, 16, 2004.

M. Ambrogiani et al., (E835 Collaboration), "Measurement of the Resonance Parameters of the Charmonium Ground State, h_c(1 ¹S₀)," Physics Letters B566, 45, 2003.

S. Ahmed et al., (CLEO Collaboration), "Measurement of B(B^- -> D⁰ p⁺) and B(B⁰ -> D⁺ p^-) and Isospin Analysis of B -> D p Decays," Physical Review D66, 031101R, 2002

S. Chen et al., (CLEO Collaboration), "Study of c_c1 and c_c2 Production in B Meson Decays," Physical Review D63, 031102R, 2001.

K. W. Edwards et al., (CLEO Collaboration), "Study of B Decays to Charmonium States B -> h_c K and B -> c_c0K," Physical Review Letters 86, 30, 2001.

B.I. Eisenstein et al., (CLEO Collaboration), "Experimental Investigation of the Two-Photon Widths of the c_c0 and the c_c2 Mesons," Physical Review Letters 87, 061801, 2001.