Astronomy Department
Indiana University
Swain West 322
727 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 855-6917
Fax: (812) 855-8725
Email: mufson [at] astro.indiana.edu

Biographical Information:

Research Interests

• Neutrino Physics with the MINOS experiment at Fermilab (MINOS web site)
• Cosmic Ray Physics and Dark Matter searches using MACRO

Teaching

• A115 Birth and Death of the Universe, Spring 2007
• A100 The Solar System, Fall 2006
• A221 General Astronomy I, Fall 2004

Selected Publications

• Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam
  MINOS Collaboration, 2006, Phys Rev Lett, 97, 191801.
• First observations of separated atmospheric νμ and ν̅μ events in the MINOS detector
  MINOS Collaboration, 2006, Phys Rev D, 73, 072002.
• Final Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles with the MACRO Detector
  MACRO Collaboration, 2005, Phys.Rev.D, accepted.
• Search for Stellar Gravitational Collapses with the MACRO Detector
  MACRO Collaboration, 2004, European Phys., 37, 265.
• Measurements of Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Oscillations, Global Analysis of the Data Collected with MACRO Detector
  MACRO Collaboration, 2004, European Phys., 36, 323.
• The Cosmic Ray Proton, Helium and CNO Fluxes in the 100 TeV Energy Region from TeV Muons & EAS Atmospheric Cherenkov Light Observations of MACRO & EAS-TOP
  MACRO Collaboration, 2004, Astroparticle Physics, 21, 223.
• The Cosmic Ray Primary Composition Between 10¹⁵ and 10¹⁶ eV from Extensive Air Showers Electromagnetic and TeV Muon Data
  MACRO Collaboration, 2004, Astroparticle Physics, 20, 641.
• Weak lensing from space I: instrumentation and survey strategy
  Rhodes, J. et al. 2004, Astroparticle Physics, 20, 377.
• QUEST1 Variability Survey. II. Variability Determination Criteria and 200k Light Curve Catalog
  Rengstorf, A. W., et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 184.
• New Quasars Detected via Variability in the QUEST1 Survey
  Rengstorf, A. W., et al. 2004, ApJ, 606, 741.
• The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey. I. The First Catalog
  Vivas, A. K., et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 1158.

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