Vitae: Wade Fisher

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Education

May 2005           Leon Lederman Fellow, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL.

January 2005      Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University, Princeton NJ.

December 2004   Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ. [Advisor: Christopher Tully]

May 2000           B.Sc. Physics & Math, Summa Cum Laude University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis MN.

Academic Positions

2009   Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Selected Publications

• "Evidence for a particle produced in association with weak bosons and decaying to a bottom-antibottom quark pair in Higgs boson searches at the Tevatron,"
  The CDF and D∅ Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071804 (2012), [arXiv.org:1207.6436].
  Physics Viewpoint Article subject, Physics 5, 91 (2012)


• "Combined search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bb using the D∅ Run II data set,"
  The D∅ Collaboration, Accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. Lett., [arXiv.org:1207.6631].


• "Measurements of WW and WZ Production in W+jets Final States in pp-bar Collisions",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 181803 (2012), [arXiv.org:1112.0536]


• "Bounds on an Anomalous Dijet Resonance in W+Jets Production in pp-bar Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 011804 (2011), [arXiv.org:1106.1921].
  Physics Synopsis Article subject, http://physics.aps.org/


• "Combination of Tevatron searches for the standard model Higgs boson in the W⁺W^- decay mode",
  The CDF and D∅ Collaborations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 061802 (2010); [arXiv.org:1001.4162]
  PRL Cover Article and PRL Editor's Suggestion, http://prl.aps.org
  Physics Viewpoint Article subject, Physics 3, 14 (2010)


• "Search for Higgs boson production in dilepton plus missing energy final states with 5.4 fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 061804 (2010); [arXiv.org:1001.4481]
  PRL Editor's Suggestion, http://prl.aps.org
  Physics Viewpoint Article subject, Physics 3, 14 (2010)


• "Measurement of trilinear gauge boson couplings from WW+WZ→lνjj events in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 80, 053012 (2009); [arXiv.org:0907.4398].


• "Evidence of WW+WZ production with lepton + jets final states in ppcollisions at √s = 1.96 TeV",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 161801 (2009); [arXiv.org:0810.3873].


• "A combined search for the standard model Higgs boson at √s = 1.96 TeV",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 663 26 (2008); [arXiv.org:0712.0598].


• "A search for anomalous heavy-flavor quark production in association with W bosons",
  The D∅ Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 152002 (2005); [arXiv.org:hep-ex/0411084];
  W. Fisher, FERMILAB-THESIS-2005-06(2005).


• "Results of the Tevatron Higgs sensitivity study",
  CDF and D∅ Higgs Working Group [CDF and D∅ Collaborations], FERMILAB-PUB-03-320-E(2003).


• "Search for a Higgs boson decaying to weak boson pairs at LEP",
  The L3 Collaboration, Phys. Lett. B 568 191 (2003); [arXiv.org:hep-ex/0307010].