J. Ritchie Patterson

Not to be confused with the weightlifter Richie Patterson.

Ritchie Patterson is a physicist at Cornell University known for her research using the Large Hadron Collider to examine dark matter and the disappearance of antimatter. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

J. Ritchie Patterson
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Scientific career
Institutions	Cornell University
Thesis	Determination of RE(epsilon prime/epsilon) by the simultaneous detection of the four KLS changes to ππ decay modes (1990)

Education and career

Patterson has a B.A. from Cornell University (1981) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1990). Following her Ph.D., she returned to Cornell where was promoted to professor in 2005.^[1] Patterson is the director of the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education (CLASSE) and the Center for Bright Beams (CBB),^[2] a science and technology center funded by the National Science Foundation.^[3]

Research

Patterson's research centers on the use of the Large Hadron Collider to search for particles with long lifetimes.^[1]

Selected publications

• Collaboration, The CMS; Chatrchyan, S; Hmayakyan, G; Khachatryan, V; Sirunyan, A M; Adam, W; Bauer, T; Bergauer, T; Bergauer, H; Dragicevic, M; Erö, J (2008-08-14). "The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC". Journal of Instrumentation. 3 (8): S08004. Bibcode:2008JInst...3S8004C. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08004. hdl:10067/730480151162165141. ISSN 1748-0221. S2CID 250668481.
• CMS Collaboration (2021-04-27). "Search for long-lived particles decaying to jets with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV". Physical Review D. 104 (5): 052011. arXiv:2104.13474. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.052011. S2CID 233423602.
• CMS Collaboration; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Asilar, E.; Bergauer, T.; Brandstetter, J.; Brondolin, E.; Dragicevic, M.; Erö, J. (2017-01-25). "Search for $R$-parity violating supersymmetry with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$". Physical Review D. 95 (1): 012009. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.012009. hdl:11655/18537. S2CID 125306174.

Awards and honors

• National Young Investigator, National Science Foundation (1994 to 1999)^[4]
• Fellow, American Physical Society (2003)^[5]
• Elected member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)^[6]

References

1. "Ritchie Patterson | Department of Physics Cornell Arts & Sciences". physics.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
2. "The Center for Bright Beams".
3. "People | The Center for Bright Beams". cbb.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
4. "NSF Award Search: Award # 9457909 - NSF Young Investigator". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
5. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
6. Nutt, David (November 26, 2019). "Five faculty members elected AAAS fellows". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-08-26.

External links

• Center for Bright Beams