Professor
PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1957
Recipient, Alexander von Humboldt Prize
Fellow, American Physical Society
Prof. Seth's research focuses on several areas of experimental medium-energy and high-energy particle and nuclear physics. His past research was conducted at the National Laboratories at Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos, and the international laboratories CEN de Saclay (Paris) and CERN (Geneva). He presently conducts much of his research at Fermilab (Chicago, Illinois), Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, New York), and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at Cornell (Ithaca, New York). Prof. Seth's research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Prof. Seth's early notable research contributions were in neutron physics, nuclear spectroscopy, pion physics, dibaryons, and exotic nuclei. More recently, Prof. Seth has been involved in pioneering experiments in hadron spectroscopy. These have included the discovery (at Brookhaven) of a novel species of hadrons, called "hybrids", which are hybrids of valence quarks and gluons, and searching for an even more exotic species, called "glueballs" (which only contain gluons) at CERN. At Fermilab, Prof. Seth collaborates in experiments for precision spectroscopy of charmonium (composed of a charm quark and a charm antiquark) by the novel technique of forming them in the annihilation of a proton and an antiproton. Recently, Prof. Seth has joined the collaboration at LNS (Cornell) to further study precision spectroscopy of charmonium and charmed mesons and baryons via electron-positron annihilation. Already, these new efforts have led to the discovery of an erstwhile missing state of charmonium. Other interesting discoveries are anticipated because of the unique nature of the LNS accelerator and the CLEO-c detector.
Prof. Seth is a much sought-after speaker at international conferences, and is a reviewer for several national and international journals and funding agencies.
Selected Publications
C. Cawlfield et al., "A Precision Determination of the D0 Mass"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 092002 (2007)
N. E. Adam et al., "Absolute Branching Fraction Measurements for D+ and D0 Inclusive Semileptonic Decays"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 251801 (2006)
T. E. Coan et al., "Charmonium Decays of Y(4260), y(4160), and y(4040)"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 162003 (2006)
D. Besson et al., "Measurement of s (e+e- --> y(3770) --> hadrons) at Ecm = 3773 MeV"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 092002 (2006)
N. E. Adam et al., "Observation of y(3770) --> pp J / y and Measure06/26/2008082004 (2006)
P. Rubin et al., "New Measurements of Cabibbo-Suppressed Decays of D Mesons with the CLEO-c Detector"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 081802 (2006)
Q. He et al., "Confirmation of the Y(4260) Resonance Production in ISR"
Phys. Rev. D74, 091104 (2006)
S. Dobbs et al., "Measurement of Interference between Electromagnetic and Strong Amplitudes in y(2S) Decays to Two Pseudoscalar Mesons"
Phys. Rev. D74, 011105 (2006)
J. L. Rosner et al., "Precision Measurements of Timelike Form Factors of the Pion, Kaon, and Proton"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 261803 (2005)
J. L. Rosner et al., "Observation of the hc (1P1) State of Charmonium"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 102003 (2005)
D. M. Asner et al., "Observation of y Prime Production in g g Fusion at CLEO"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 142001 (2004)
K. K. Seth, "Hybrids and Glueballs: A Status Report"
Mod. Phys. Lett. A18 330, (2003)
K. K. Seth, "Charmonium Attenuation in Quark-Gluon Plasmas"
Proc. 30th Int. Symp. Multiparticle Dynamics, Tihany (Hungary), World Scientific, 275 (2001)
