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Veronique Ziegler
Veronique Ziegler came to Jefferson Lab in November 2011 as a Hall B staff scientist. She was a postdoctoral research associate at SLAC
National Accelerator Lab from 2007 to 2011. She graduated from the Ph.D. program in experimental high energy physics at the University of Iowa
in 2007. Her doctoral thesis contributed to the area of baryon spectroscopy. She received the D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize for
2008 in mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering for her work. Prior to joining the CLAS12 experiment at JLab, she worked at the
BaBar experiment at SLAC. Her postdoctoral work contributed to several Dalitz plot analyses, the discovery of the ηb
resonance and first evidence of the hb(1P) state of bottomonium in its rare π0 transition from Υ(3S)
decay. She served as co-convener of the BaBar Quarkonium Analysis Working Group from 2009 until 2011, when she joined Hall B. She served
as the CLAS12 software group leader from 2014 until 2020. She developed the CLAS12 tracking code for both the forward and the central
tracking systems. She has been leading the CLAS12 track reconstruction effort since 2012, and is currently involved in an effort to
develop tracking software using novel methods such as AI to allow data taking at high luminosity. As her physics interests involve hadron
spectroscopy, she is a member of an analysis group dedicated to strange baryons studies.
Current Responsibilities in Hall B:
- Lead of the CLAS12 track reconstruction software development.
- Developer of tracking and analysis tools.
- Developer of the Drift Chamber calibration suite.
Current Research Activities in Hall B:
Selected Publications:
- A. Boehnlein et al., "Machine Learning in Nuclear Physics", Rev. Mod. Phys. 94 031003, (2022).
- V. Ziegler et al., "The CLAS12 Software Framework and Event Reconstruction", Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 959, 163472 (2020).
- A. Antonioli et al., "Performance of the CLAS12 Silicon Vertex Tracker Modules", Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 732, 11 (2013).
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), "Evidence for the hb(1P) Meson in the decay Υ(3S)→π0hb(1P)",
Phys. Rev. D 84, 091101 (2011).
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), "Observation of the Bottomonium Ground State in the Decay Υ(3S)→γηb",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 082001, (2012).
- W. Dunwoodie and V. Ziegler, "A Simple Explanation for the X(3872) Mass Shift Observed for Decay to D*0D0",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 062006 (2008).
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), "Measurement of the Spin of the Ξ(1530) Resonance", Phys. Rev. D 78, 034008 (2008).
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), "Measurement of the Mass and Width and Study of the Spin of the Ξ(1690)0 Resonance at BaBar",
hep-ex/0607043. Contributed paper presented at the 33rd International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 06), Moscow, Russia.
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), "Measurement of the Spin of the Ω- Hyperon", Phys. Rev. Lett. 97,112002 (2006).
- B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), " Production and Decay of Ξ0c at BaBar", Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 142003 (2005).
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