Professor Mark Thomson
Selected Publications and Conference Reports
From 390 Opal publications, 10 Soudan 2 publications and 11 MINOS publication only papers which I have either written or performed a major part of the anaysis are listed below. My full publication list (as of November 2009) is also available in pdf form.
Particle Flow Calorimetry and the PandoraPFA Algorithm
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M. A. Thomson NIMA 611 (2009) 25-40. |
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Measurement of W pair production cross section and W decay branching fractions
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The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al. Eur. Phys. J. C, 52 (2007) 767-785 |
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Particle FLow Calorimetry at the ILC
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M.A. Thomson Proceedings of HSW06, Fermilab, September 2006. AIP Conf. Proc. 896 (2007) 215-224. |
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Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors and the NuMI beam
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The MINOS Collaboration, D. Michael et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 97: 191801 (2006). |
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First observations of separated numu and numubar events in the MINOS detector
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The MINOS Collaboration, P. Adamson et al. Phys. Rev. D , 072002 (2006). |
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Measurement of the mass and width of the W boson
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The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al. Eur. Phys. J. , C45 307-335 (2006). |
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Status of the MINOS Experiment
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M.A. Thomson Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 143 (2005) |
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The TESLA Detector Concept
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M.A. Thomson in Proceedings of the extended joint ECFA-DESY Study on Physics and Detectors for a Linear e+e- Collider. DESY-PROC-2004-01 |
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Measurement of mW at LEP
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M.A. Thomson Proceedings of EPS-HEP 2003, Aachen. Topical Volume of Eur. Phys. J. C Direct (2004) |
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The MINOS Data Acquisition System
(.pdf) A. Belias, et al. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci , vol 51. pp 451-455, 2004. |
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Constraints on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Boson Couplings from vv gamma gamma
and qq gamma gamma events at LEP2.
(.ps) The Opal Collaboration, A.Abbiendi, et al. Phys. Rev. D 70, 032005 (2004). |
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A Study of W+W- gamma Events at LEP (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration Phys. Lett. B580 (2004) 17-36. |
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The Influence of the Experimental Methodology on the QED Theoretical
Uncertainties on the Measurement of Mw at LEP (.ps)
M.A. Thomson Cavendish-HEP-2003/08, hep-ph/0307043 Published in JHEP0308(2003)009 |
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Neutrino Oscillations (.ps)
M.A. Thomson, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A360 (2002) 921-938. |
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Precise Determination of the Z Resonance Parameters at LEP :
Zedometry (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Eur. Phys. J. C19 (2001) 587-651. |
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Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson in
e+e- Collisions at 189 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Phys. Lett. B507 (2001) 29-46. |
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W+W- Production Cross Section and W Branching
Fractions in e+e- Collisions at 189 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Phys. Lett. B493 (2000) 249-265. |
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Measurement of the W+W-gamma Cross-Section and
First Direct Limits on Anomalous Electroweak Quartic Gauge Couplings (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Phys. Lett. B471 (1999) 293-307. |
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First Direct Limits on Anomalous Quartic Gauge Couplings
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M.A. Thomson proceedings of International Europhysics Conference on HEP, EPS-HEP'99, Tampere, Finland, July 1999. |
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Measurement of the W Mass and Width
e+e- Collisions at 183 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Phys. Lett. B453 (1999) 138-152. |
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W+W- Production
and triple gauge boson couplings at
LEP energies up to 183 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Eur. Phys. J. C8 (1999) 191-215. |
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Measurement of the W Boson Mass at LEP
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M.A. Thomson proceedings of XXIXth International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP'98, Vancouver, Canada, July 1998. |
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Report of the working group on W mass and QCD (.ps)
A. Ballestrero, et al. Proceedings of the LEP 2 Workshop, Oxford, 1997, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 24 (1998) 365. |
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Measurement of the W Boson Mass and W+W- Production
and Decay Properties in e+e- Collisions at roots=172 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, A. Abbiendi, et al. Eur. Phys. J. C1 (1998) 395-425. |
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Measurement of the W Boson Mass from
Direct Reconstruction at LEP
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M.A. Thomson proceedings of the XXXIInd Rencontres de Moriond, Les Arcs, France, March 1997. |
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Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in
e+e- Collisions at 161 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff, et al. Phys. Lett. B416 (1996) 416. |
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Measurement of the Mass of the W Boson in
e+e- Collisions at 161 GeV (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff, et al. Phys. Lett. B416 (1996) 416. |
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A Precise Measurement of the Tau Polarisation and
its Forward-Backward Asymmetry at LEP (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Alexander, et al. Zeit. Phys. C72 (1996) 365-376. |
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The use of maximum entropy in electro-magnetic calorimeter event
reconstruction (.ps)
M.A. Thomson Nucl. Instr. Meth. A382 (1996) 553. |
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Tests of Lepton University from Tau Decays at LEP
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M.A. Thomson proceedings of the IInd Rencontres du Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 1995. |
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Improved Measurements of the Neutral Current from Hadron
and Lepton Production at LEP (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, R. Akers, et al. Zeit. Phys. C61 (1994) 19-34. |
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Experimental Observation of Differences Between Quark and
Gluon Jets
M.A. Thomson Proceedings of the 1993 Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallee d'Aoste, La Thuile, Aosta Valley, March 1993. |
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Precision Measurements of the Neutral Current from Hadron and Lepton Production at LEP (.ps)
The OPAL Collaboration, P. Acton, et al. Zeit. Phys. C58 (1993) 219-237. |
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The Observation of Underground Muons Associated with Cygnus X-3
During the January 1991 Radio Burst
M.A. Thomson Proceedings 22nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, \newline Dublin, Ireland (1992). |
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An Experimental Study of the Possible Association of Deep
Underground Muons with Astronomical Point Sources
M.A. Thomson, et al. D. Phil. Thesis (University of Oxford) December 1991. RAL report RALT-128. |
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The Observation of Underground Muons From the Direction of
Cygnus X-3 During the January 1991 Radio Flare
The Soudan 2 Collaboration, M.A. Thomson, et al. Phys. Lett. B269 (1991) 220-226. |