Alec T. Habig

ahabig@d.umn.edu
University of Minnesota Duluth
Department of Physics and Astronomy

I'm a professor, teaching Phys 1035 "Energy", Phys 1021 "current topics in physics", and "Phys 3562/5562 Astrophysics II" this semester. I am also the Director of Graduate Studies for UMD's Physics MS program.

I do research with the MINOS, NOvA, HALO, and DUNE neutrino experiments. I have also worked a lot on the Super-Kamiokande (still running) and MACRO (turned off in December 2000) experiments.

Also, I'm participating in SNEWS (Supernova Early Warning System) and its upgrade SNEWS2.0, which is a coincidence monitor of many neutrino experiments to provide early warning of a supernova in our galaxy, and am UMD's representative to the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium.

some NOvA stuff:

• A live NOvA Event Display and links to informational videos.

• I have worked quite a bit on the MINOS Far Detector, including being Run Coordinator based at the MINOS Control Room, 12th floor Wilson Hall.
• MINOS at UMD.
• The Soudan Mine Underground Lab, of which I am Assoc. Director.
• Joe Giannetti's MINOS Mural Project at Soudan.
• arXiv:1507.04328 [hep-ex], Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors, in PRD 92, 052005.
• arXiv:1004.2647 [hep-ex], MINOS neutrino oscillation results, in Modern Physics Letters A, 25, 1219.
• arXiv:0909.4012 [hep-ex], Observation of muon intensity variations by season with the MINOS far detector, in PRD 81, 012001.
• arXiv:0805.3170v1 [ins-det], The magnetized steel and scintillator calorimeters of the MINOS experiment, in NIM A596, 190.
• arXiv:0805.2317v1 [hep-ex], Current NuMI/MINOS Oscillation Results, 2008 Moriond Electroweak proceedings.
• hep-ex/0507018, The MINOS Detectors, 29th ICRC (Pune, 2005) proceedings.
• hep-ex/0507010, Neutrino-induced muons observed with MINOS, 29th ICRC (Pune, 2005) proceedings.
• Status of MINOS, a talk at Physics with Atmospheric Neutrinos and Neutrinos from Muon Storage Rings, IIT-Mumbai, India, August 1-2 2005.
• The MINOS Far Detector, a poster at Neutrino 2002 (Munich)
• NuMI-L-780, Outline of a Shallow Underwater Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Experiment (SUMO)
• MINOS work supported by NSF RUI grant #1607381

some Super-K stuff:

• astro-ph/0606413, High energy neutrino astronomy using upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande-I
• astro-ph/0507051, High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy with the Super-Kamiokande Detector, 29th ICRC (Pune, 2005) proceedings.
• hep-ex/0501064 A Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation Parameters by Super-Kamiokande I
• Upward Showering muons in Super-K, a talk (in pdf) at the AAS HEAD meeting in New Orleans, Sept. 2004.
• Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations in SK-I, a talk (in pdf) at 28th ICRC (Tsukuba 2003)
• (Semi) UHE Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande, a talk (in pdf) at Chiba UHE Neutrino Telescope Workshop (2003)
• The Many Uses of Upward-going Muons in Super-K, a poster at Neutrino 2002 (Munich)
• hep-ex/0106024 An Indirect Search for WIMPs with Super-Kamiokande, 27th ICRC (Hamburg 2001) proceedings
• hep-ex/0106025 Discriminating between ν_μ ↔ ν_τ and ν_μ ↔ ν_sterile in atmospheric ν_μ oscillations with the Super-Kamiokande detector, 27th ICRC (Hamburg 2001) proceedings
• hep-ex/9908049 Neutrino-induced upward stopping muons in Super-Kamiokande
• hep-ex/9812014 Measurement of the flux and zenith-angle distribution of upward through-going muons by Super-Kamiokande
• hep-ex/9903047 Neutrino-induced upward-going muons in Super-Kamiokande, DPF'99 proceedings.
• The Super-K US Group's home page.
• Super-K at Boston University
  

some MACRO stuff:

• MACRO-USA site
  
• Picture of MACRO
  
• Our Mountain (MACRO lives underneath.)
  
• Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) - the lab where MACRO is
  
• The Abruzzo, the province where MACRO is lucky enough to be located.
  
• My PhD thesis : Muon Astronomy and Cosmic Ray Physics with the MACRO detector.
• hep-ex/9807006 Observation of the Shadowing of Cosmic Rays by the Moon using a Deep Underground Detector
• astro-ph/0211119 The Search for the Sidereal and Solar Diurnal Modulations in the Total MACRO Muon Data Set

some SNEWS stuff:

• A whitepaper about SNEWS 2.0
• The SNEWS 2.0 Workshop, Laurentian University, June 14-19 2019.
• Poster shown at the May 2005 AAS meeting in Minneapolis, in Powerpoint.
• "SNEWS: The SuperNova Early Warning System", in New Journal of Physics
• Poster shown at Neutrino 2004 (Paris) in ppt and pdf.
• astro-ph/9912293 SNEWS: A Neutrino Early Warning System for Galactic SN II, 1999 Maryland October Astrophysics Conference proceedings.
• SNEWS work supported by NSF collaborative grant #1505960

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My Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Family, Interests and Personal Stuff:

• My wife Kim and sons Karl and Frank.
• Our dogs Guido and Lucia, and cats Chiyo and Tomas.
• Wargaming: (Advanced Squad Leader, Empires in Arms, Illuminati, Star Fleet Battles, and generally a whole basement full of stuff). I used to keep the rec.games.board FAQ back when dinosaurs and Usenet roamed the earth.
• Miniatures painting and gaming: (15mm Napoleanic Russians, 15mm American Civil War, 15mm Welsh, and 25mm Fantasy including the silly but fun Blood Bowl) and the 28mm Kings of War games.
  • The Happy Legion, an old WHFB Tomb Kings army turned Empire of Dust KoW army.
  • Alliance Ursa Majoris, a Northern Alliance KoW army.
  • A Dusty Fleet, for Armada.
• Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
• Hacking around with various computers and their games.
• Target shooting.
• Fencing. I fence all three weapons, but do best at epee', and enjoy sabre the most.
• Netrek. You'll find me playing under the name "Entropy", I play for the EuroTwinks team in the INL. I also hack around on the COW client and the Vanilla Server.
• Here's my WWW bookmarks list - hope you find a cool link here.

Me and my dog Guido.