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Linda G. Stutte

Linda Gail Stutte is an experimental elementary particle physicist. After an appointment as a postdoc at Caltech in 1974–76,[1] Stutte was a research staff scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory[2] from 1976 through her retirement in 2007. She is known for work on neutrino experiments and her expertise with Fermliab neutrino beam facilities.

Linda G. Stutte
Born
Linda Gail Stutte
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT, UCBerkeley
Known forNeutrino Area beams, Muon Detectors, E594, D0, SELEX experiments
Scientific career
FieldsParticle Physics
InstitutionsFermilab
Doctoral advisorHarry H. Bingham and W. B. Fretters

Education

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Stutte attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her undergraduate work and earned a PhD from UC, Berkeley in 1973. Her PhD advisors were W. B. Fretter[3] and H. H. Bingham.[4]

Career

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Stutte's research at Fermilab has focused on high-energy physics through software and hardware development, neutrino-beam research and management of the DØ experiment. She became an expert on the Fermilab neutrino beams and was one of the few physicists who could tune the Neutrino Area beams that provided data for the bubble chambers and the large neutrino experiments.[5]

Neutrino beams at Fermilab

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During her time at Fermilab, Stutte was the area coordinator for the Neutrino Area.[6] Her contributions include measurements of the properties of neutrino beams[7] and design and testing of new beams.[8] Beam design involves the ability to envision multiple interacting parameters to produce a beam with specified optimal properties, for instance, energy spectrum, beam emittance, properties of steering and focusing magnets, and beam position and intensity monitors.

E594 experiment

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This neutrino experiment at Fermilab is an inverse muon decay.[9][10] E594 studied the reaction (
ν
μ) (muon neutrino) striking an electron, and producing an electron neutrino, not detected, and a μ (muon), detected by the flash calorimeter. There is a large background of unwanted events; the flash calorimeter helped to separate these desired events from the unwanted background. Dr. Stutte was an expert on the detector and data acquisition system.

DØ (DZero) experiment

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Stutte participated in the DØ experiment at the Tevatron from 1983 through 2007 and was elevated to department leader in 2002.[11] She worked extensively with the muon detection system.[12]

SELEX experiment

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Stutte participated in the SELEX experiment (E781) at Fermilab. The SELEX (SEgmented Large-X baryon spectrometer EXperiment) was run to study charmed baryons. She worked on the RICH Cherenkov detectors.[13][14] This experiment made many observations, including confirmation of the doubly charged baryon xi+cc (3520). The SELEX experiment is described in the proceedings of the Hadron 97 7th international conference.[15]

Retirement

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Stutte retired in 2007 from Fermilab. Haley Bridger wrote her retirement announcement, which appeared in the September 20, 2007, issue of Fermilab today.[5]

See also

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Awards and recognitions

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Stutte received a 10-year award from Leon Lederman and 30-year service award from Pier Oddone.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ "INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS 1975–1976" (PDF). September 1975. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  2. ^ "INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  3. ^ "INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  4. ^ "INSPIRE". inspirehep.net. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Bridger, Haley (September 20, 2007). "Linda Stutte retires Sept. 21" (PDF). Fermilab Today. pp. 1–2. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  6. ^ "FN_1986_06_26.pdf" (PDF). history.fnal.gov. June 26, 1986. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  7. ^ https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-tm/0000/fermilab-tm-0841.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ^ Stutte, Linda (January 2, 1979). "A Possible Dichromatic Neutrino Beam for a 1 TeV Accelerator" (PDF). Fermilab Technical Memo Archive. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  9. ^ Fermilab TM-0841
  10. ^ Mishra, S.R.; Bachmann, K.T.; Blair, R.E.; Foudas, C.; King, B.J.; Lefmann, W.C.; Leung, W.C.; Oltman, E.; Quintas, P.Z.; Rabinowitz, S.A.; Sciulli, F.J.; Seligman, B.; Shaevitz, M.H.; Smith, W.H.; Merritt, F.S. (December 1990). "Inverse muon decay, νμ+e→μ−+νe, at the Fermilab Tevatron". Physics Letters B. 252 (1): 170–176. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(90)91099-W.
  11. ^ Jackson, Judy (October 29, 1999). "Fermi News" (PDF). history.fnal.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  12. ^ Abazov, V. M.; Acharya, B. S.; Alexeev, G. D.; Alkhazov, G.; Anosov, V. A.; Baldin, B.; Banerjee, S.; Bardon, O.; Bartlett, J. F.; Baturitsky, M. A.; Beutel, D.; Bezzubov, V. A.; Bodyagin, V.; Butler, J. M.; Cease, H. (November 1, 2005). "The muon system of the Run II DØdetector". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 552 (3): 372–398. arXiv:physics/0503151. Bibcode:2005NIMPA.552..372A. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2005.07.008. ISSN 0168-9002. S2CID 14522426.
  13. ^ Stutte, Linda; Engelfried, Jürgen; Kilmer, James (January 21, 1996). "A method to evaluate mirrors for Cherenkov counters". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 369 (1): 69–78. Bibcode:1996NIMPA.369...69S. doi:10.1016/0168-9002(95)00765-2. ISSN 0168-9002.
  14. ^ Engelfried, J.; Filimonov, I. S.; Kilmer, J.; Kozhevnikov, A. P.; Kubarovsky, V. P.; Molchanov, V. V.; Nemitkin, A. V.; Ramberg, E.; Rud, V. I.; Stutte, L. (April 11, 2003). "SELEX RICH performance and physics results". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. Experimental Techniques of Cherenkov Light Imaging. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors. 502 (1): 285–288. arXiv:hep-ex/0208046. Bibcode:2003NIMPA.502..285E. doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00289-4. ISSN 0168-9002. S2CID 15272650.
  15. ^ E781 collaboration. The SELEX experiment at Fermilab. United States: N. p., 1998. Web.
  16. ^ John W., Cooper (December 19, 1986). "FN_1986_12_19.pdf" (PDF). history.fnal.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
  17. ^ "Fermilab Today Wednesday, July 26, 2006" (PDF). Retrieved September 20, 2022.
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