Address      : Department of Physics, 
                University of Bergen
                Allégaten. 55, 
                N-5007 Bergen, 
                Norway 


 Office       : Room 331 in Bjørn Trumpys house

 Phone        : ..47-55-58-2861
 Fax          : ..47-55-58-9440
 Phone at CERN: ..41-22-767-6787
 Email        : Gerald.Eigen@ift.uib.no, Gerald@slac.stanford.edu




 Long term experience in data analysis, simumlation and instrumentation CV 
 Worked in many international experiments: CUSB, MARKIII, SLD, CLEO, DELPHI, BABAR, ATLAS, CALICE.
 -Member of IRTG on smart detectors in collaboration with Oslo and Heidelberg 
 -Associate of EUDET project 
 -Visiting position at Caltech
 

 Present Experiments: BABAR, ATLAS, CALICE AHCAL 
 Detector Pictures:(BABAR Detector, ATLAS detector, ATLAS photos)
 SuperB TDR   TDR 

 Physics interests: -CP Violation (B-> K pi puzzle) 
 -CKM Matrix (test Standard Model) 
 -Rare B Decays (Penguin decays, Wilson coefficients, B -> tau nu) 
 -BB Mixing 
 -Higgs Searches (Standard Model higgs, charged Higgs) 
 -New Physics Phenomena (black holes, extra dimensions, supersymmetric states)

 Instrumentation Interests: -Photodetectors (novel pixelated solid state detectors,SiPMs, MPPCs)
 -Light collection (readout of crystals and plastic scintillators)
 -Calorimetry (crystal calorimeters, sampling calorimeter, PET) 
 -Vertex Detectors

 Ongoing work: -Study of electroweak penguin decays in ATLAS/BABAR 
 -Search for black holes in ATLAS 
 -Di-muon and four-muon final states in ATLAS
 -CKM matrix  poster ,  talk 
 -Characterization of novel photodetectors
 -Work on the analog hadron calorimeter for ILC (arXiv:1003.2662, arXiv:1012.4343, arXiv:1207.4210)
 -Design of backward endcap calorimeter for SuperB  slides,  talk at task force ,  update 


 Recent talks:
 Presentation of present work at NFR meeting in Bergen slides, and at ECFA meeting in Oslo slides 
 Recent BABAR results presented at conferences FPCP08/Taipei, DIS09/Madrid, CKM workshop 2010, 
 Lectures at schools CERN, Bergen student conference  
 Talk for scientists slides 
 Recent poster presentations at conferences at TIPP/Tsukuba, at Lepton Photon 08

 Teaching: -Experimental Techniques in Particle and Nuclear Physics
           -Introduction to Particle/Nuclear Physics,
           -Special Topics in Particle Physics  
           -The CKM Matrix 
           -CP violation
           -The Standard Model
           -Calorimetry
 
For students:    The particle adventure, ATLAS tour

Offer interesting topics for master theses and PhD 
theses on hardware, software and data analysis. Topics include

Hardware topics:
 - Construction of a lead-scintillator calorimeter prototype read out with wavelength shifting fibers and MPPCs, 
 - Performamnce studies of several different new MPPCs 
 - Characterization of a novel ASIC for calorimeter and PET readout
 - Setup and measurements of a PET scanner prototype

Simulation work:
 - Study of the expected performance of a lead scintillator calorimeter prototype 
 - Simulation of coincident photons in a PET scanner protoype
 
 
Data analysis:
 - Beam test data analysis of a hadron calorimeter prototypem
 - Search for black holes and stringballs with ATLAS data
 - Studies of the Higgs boson and other new particles in lepton final states
 - Studies of B, Bs, Bc meson properties in final states with a J/psi
 - Search for Bs->mu mu











 Teaching in Spring semester:

  PhYS341: Utvalde emne i eksperimentell partikkelfysikk 

transparencies for chapter    I:  PHYS341-01 
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transparencies for chapter IX:    PHYS341-15 

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 NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! NOTE!
The 2008 Nobel Prize was awarded to Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (one half),
 and to Yoichiro Nambu (one half). The BABAR and Belle experiments were cited in the 

Nobel Press release for proving the relevance of the CKM phase as the source of 
CP violation in the Standard Model. D. Hitlin and F.Porter from Caltech were the 
founders of the BABAR experiment and I was involved from the very first day. The 
project started at Caltech.
(Article 
in SLAC today)