Doug Gingrich, PhD, MSc, BSc

Professor, Faculty of Science - Physics

Curriculum Vitæ

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Contact

Professor, Faculty of Science - Physics

Email: gingrich@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-9501
Address: 2-097 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II
11335 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H5

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Experimental High Energy Physics Phenomenology of Quantum Gravity Phenomenology of Superstring Theory

About

PhD (1988) University of Toronto

MSc (1983) University of Toronto

BSc (1982) University of Waterloo

Research

My current interests are in the areas of the phenomenology of quantum gravity and string theory. In addition, I am a collaborator of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. Within ATLAS I am active in the areas of searches for new phenomena beyond the standard model of particle physics and measurements of the Higgs particle self coupling. I have responsibilities and interests within the technical areas of Monte Carlo simulated sample production and grid computing.

Teaching

See course below.

Courses

PHYS 420 - Computational Physics

Basic principles; computational methods selected from finite-differences, matrix manipulation, variational techniques, discrete transforms, stochastic methods, lattice techniques; as applied to topics selected from nonlinear mechanics, chaotic systems; electrodynamics; wave propagation; statistical physics; quantum mechanics; condensed matter. Prerequisites: PHYS 234, 244, PHYS 381, MA PH 251 or MATH 337 or ECE 341 or equivalent. Recommended pre- or corequisites: MA PH 343, PHYS 311, PHYS 372, PHYS 472, and PHYS 481. Familiarity with a programming language strongly recommended.

Fall Term 2024

PHYS 580 - Computational Physics

Fall Term 2024

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Scholarly Activities

Research - ATLAS - Software and Computing Research Scrutiny Group

Review requests for manpower and hardware resources before they are presented to external bodies and receive accounting reports.

Research - ATLAS experiment Monte Carlo production manager

Process Monte Carlo sample production on the world wide LHC computing Grid.

Research - ATLAS experiment theory contact for TeV-scale gravity, black holes, and extra dimensions

Offer theoretical advice to ATLAS analyses.

Research - ATLAS-Canada Computing Coordinator

2017-04-01 to 2021-03-31

Responsible for delivering grid computing resources from ATLAS-Canada to ATLAS.

Research - Worldwide LHC Computing Grid - Computing Resources Scrutiny Group

2025-01-01 to 2028-01-01

Scrutinize the large LHC experiment's computing requests.

Featured Publications

A generalized uncertainty-inspired quantum black hole

Federica Fragomeno, Douglas M. Gingrich, Samantha Hergott, Saeed Rastgoo, Evan Vienneau

arXiv:2406.03909. 2024 June; 10.48550/arXiv.2406.03909

Quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections

Douglas M. Gingrich

Physical Review D 110, 084045 (2024). 2024 April; 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.084045

Search for quantum black hole production in lepton+jet final states using proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Physical Review D. 2024 February; 109 (032010):28 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.032010

Quasinormal modes of loop quantum black holes near the Planck scale

Douglas M. Gingrich

Physical Review D. 2024 February; 109 (044044):12 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.044044

Search for lepton-flavour violation in high-mass dilepton final states using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s =13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023 October; 10 (082) 10.1007/JHEP10%282023%29082

Search for periodic signals in the dielectron and diphoton invariant mass spectra using 139 fb−1 of pp collisions at √ s= 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics . 2023 October; 10 (079) 10.1007/JHEP10%282023%29079

Greybody factors for higher-dimensional non-commutative geometry inspired black holes

Zachary Cox, Douglas M. Gingrich

Classical and Quantum Gravity. 2023 August; 40 (175013) 10.1088/1361-6382/aceb46

Quantum atmosphere effective radii for different spin fields from quantum gravity inspired black holes

Douglas M. Gingrich

General Relativity and Gravitation. 2023 July; 55 (80) 10.1007/s10714-023-03131-6

Quantum black holes in the horizon quantum mechanics model at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich and Brennan Undseth

Physical Review D. 2020 November; 102 (095020):11

Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the ℓℓbb and ℓℓWW final states in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Submitted to EPJC. 2020 November;

Search for dark matter in association with an energetic photon in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Submitted to JHEP. 2020 November;

Search for tt-bar resonances in fully hadronic final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020 October; 10 (61):41

Search for new resonances in mass distributions of jet pairs using 139/fb of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS Collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020 March; 03 (145):41

Combination of searches for Higgs boson pairs in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physics Letters B. 2020 January; 800 (135103):38

Monte Carlo event generator for the production and decay of string resonances in proton-proton collisions

Pourya Vakilipourtakalou and Douglas M. Gingrich

2018 November;

Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying into a Z boson and another heavy Higgs boson in the ℓℓbb final state in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physics Letters B. 2018 September; 783

Search for Higgs boson pair production in the γγWW∗ channel using pp collision data recorded at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

European Physical Journal C. 2018 July; 78 (1007):39

Search for lepton-flavor violation in different-flavor, high-mass final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physical Review D. 2018 July; 98 (092008):49

Search for new phenomena in different-flavour high-mass dilepton final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

European Physical Journal C. 2016 July; 76 (541):41

Search for new phenomena with photon+jet events in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 December; 03 (041):38

Search for strong gravity in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The ATLAS collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 December; 03 (026):40

Collider searches for non-perturbative low-scale gravity states

Douglas M. Gingrich

Int. J. Mod. Phys. A. 2015 December; 30 (1530061):18

Search for low-scale gravity signatures in multi-jet final states with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015 March; 07 (032):45

Search for microscopic black holes and string balls in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014 May; 08 (103):58

Search for dark matter in events with a Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physical Review D. 2014 March; 90 (012004):21

Search for dark matter in events with a hadronically decaying W or Z boson and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physical Review Letters. 2013 September; 112 (041802):19

Search for new phenomena in photon+jet events collected in proton--proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

Physics Letters B. 2013 September; 728

Search for TeV-scale gravity signatures in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

The ATLAS collaboration

Physics Letters B. 2012 April; 716 (122-141):23

Search for strong gravity signatures in same-sign dimuon final states using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

The ATLAS collaboration

Physics Letters B. 2011 October; 709 (4-5):322-340

Very high-energy observations of the two high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects 1ES 1218+304 and H 1426+428

C. Mueller, N. Akhter, J. Ball, D.A. Bramel, J. Carson, C.E. Covault, D. Driscoll, P. Fortin, D.M. Gingrich, D.S. Hanna, A. Jarvis, J. Kildea, T. Lindner, R. Mukherjee, R.A. Ong, K. Ragan, R.A. Scalzo, D.A. Williams, J. Zweerink (The STACEE Collaboration)

Astroparticle Physics. 2011 April; 34 (9):674-678

Noncommutative geometry inspired black holes in higher dimensions at the LHC

Douglas M. Gingrich

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010 March; 05 (022):22

Production of tidal-charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich

Physical Review D. 2010 January; 81 (057702):9

Quantum black holes with charge, colour, and spin at the LHC

Douglas M. Gingrich

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 2009 December; 37 (105108):22

Monte Carlo event generator for black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions

Douglas M. Gingrich

Computer Physics Communications. 2009 November; 181 (11):1917-1924

Signatures of Singlet Neutrinos in Large Extra Dimensions at the LHC

Douglas M. Gingrich

International Journal of Modern Physics A. 2009 July; 24

OSETI with STACEE: A Search for Nanosecond Optical Transients from Nearby Stars

D.S. Hanna, J. Ball, C.E. Covault, J. E. Carson, D.D. Driscoll, P. Fortin, D.M. Gingrich, A. Jarvis, J. Kildea, T. Lindner, C. Mueller, R. Mukherjee, R.A. Ong, K. Ragan, D.A. Williams, J. Zweerink

Astrobiology. 2009 April; 9 (4):38

Study of highly-excited string states at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich and Kevin Martell

Physical Review D. 2008 August; 78 (115009):11

Microcanonical treatment of black hole decay at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich and Kevin Martell

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 2007 August; 35 (3):13

Missing energy in black hole production and decay at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007 June; 11 (064):28

Effect of charged partons on black hole production at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich

Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006 December; 02 (098):20

Black Hole Cross Section at the Large Hadron Collider

Douglas M. Gingrich

International Journal of Modern Physics A. 2006 September; 21

The STACEE Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Detector

STACEE Collaboration: D. M. Gingrich, L. M. Boone, D. Bramel, J. Carson, C. E. Covault, P. Fortin, D. S. Hanna, J. A. Hinton, A. Jarvis, J. Kildea, T. Lindner, C. Mueller, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, K. Ragan, R. A. Scalzo, C. G. Theoret, D. A. Williams, J. A. Zweerink

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 2005 December; 52