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I am a graduate student in the [[University of Toronto|http://www.utoronto.ca]] [[Physics Department|http://www.physics.utoronto.ca]] currently working towards a doctorate. I got my undergraduate degree from ~McGill University between 2002-2005. Before coming to Toronto I spent a year living in Kyoto, Japan, where I worked a bunch of random jobs including information agent for a big shopping mall and model for a medical equipment company's video catalog. Ironically, the latter is the only job I have ever had which required me to wear a lab coat. I am originally from Cantley, Quebec, a small town located ~10 kilometers north of Ottawa, Ontario. I like cats, music, and comedy, yet the musical 'Cats' is strangely unappealing to me.

You can use the links in the upper-right hand corner to learn more about my professional activities, or contact me using the information on the right.
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60 St. George Street Room 915
Toronto, Ontario
~M5S1A7 Canada
+1 416 978 8478

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CERN, Bat. 40, 1-C15
~CH-1211 Geneve 23
Switzerland
+41 22 76 71272

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Dominique.Tardif@cern.ch
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* The ATLAS collaboration, [[Prospects for associated single top quark production cross section measurements in the dilepton decay mode with ATLAS|http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1161128?ln=en]], ~ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-001
* V Cindro et al., [[The ATLAS Beam Conditions Monitor|http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1748-0221/3/02/P02004/]], 2008 JINST 3 P02004
I am a member of the University of Toronto experimental high-energy physics group working on the [[ATLAS experiment|http://cern.ch/atlas]] at CERN. My supervisor is [[Prof. William Trischuk|http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~william]]. You can open a list of my publications by clicking [[here|Publications]].

!!!Beam conditions monitoring

The ATLAS [[Beam Conditions Monitor|http://cern.ch/bcm]] (BCM) is a detector array consisting of 8 modules arranged symmetrically about the center of the ATLAS detector, each of which contains a pair of pCVD diamond pads fitted with fast electronics. The fast signal acquisition and excellent time resolution of the BCM allows real-time monitoring of the beam conditions in ATLAS using time-of-flight measurements. I have been involved with the BCM group since mid-2007. Using simulated data, I studied the expected BCM background from collisions and "natural" beam loss (gas/halo), as well as the potential danger to the ATLAS inner detector from a few credible beam accident scenarios and the BCM's ability to detect these. I also made numerous contributions to the BCM's online (postmortem) and offline (digitization algorithm, pool converters, bytestream encoder/decoder) software.

!!! Single top quark production

Electroweak production of top quarks is interesting for two main reasons: it is the only way to directly measure the CKM matrix element |Vtb|, and it is sensitive to a wide range of beyond-the-~Standard-Model scenarios. Single top quark production was discovered in early 2009 by the CDF and ~DZero collaborations; however the much larger center-of-mass energy of the LHC means that single top production will be much more common in ATLAS, allowing for separation of the different contributions (t-channel, s-channel, Wt-channel) to single top quark production.

!!! Past experiments

During my undergraduate senior year (2004-2005), I worked on the [[CDF experiment|http://www-cdf.fnal.gov]] under the guidance of [[Prof. Andreas Warburton|http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~awarburt]] (~McGill University). I spent most of my time measuring prescale factors and deriving trigger efficiency curves for a b-jet cross section analysis.
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