Michael P. Levtchenko

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal info

Name:                                   LEVTCHENKO Mikhail
Born:                                     27.09.1973 Gatchina, USSR
Nationality:                          Russian
Citizenship:                          Russia
Civil Status:                          Single
Job address:
                                                St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
                                                Russian Academy of Sciences
                                                Gatchina, Leningrad Region
                                                188300 RUSSIA
Home Address:
                                                Konstantinova 4-88
                                                Gatchina,Leningrad Region
                                                188300 RUSSIA
                                                E-mail address: mishelev@pnpi.spb.ru

LANGUAGES

English, French, Russian

Present position

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)

Gatchina, Russia.

May 1996 - present Experimental Physics, Researcher

Education

St. Petersburg State Technical University (Sept. 1990- Feb. 1996): Politechnicheskaya str. 26, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Geneva, CERN. (July-September 2000 )

CERN Summer school.

Stare Jablonki, Warsaw, Poland (Sept. 1999)

CERN School of Computing.

Prague, Czech Republic (Sept. 1997)

CERN School of Computing.

Carry le Ruet, Marceille, France (Sept.1996)

CERN-JINR School of physics.

Skills

Data analysis, Monte-Carlo simulations, DAQ.
C/C++, Fortran programing.
Web design and development, HTML, Perl, CGI programing.
Windows system administration.

Research Experience

October 1999 - present

CERN

Working in PNPI/CERN L3 gamma gamma analysis group. The following activities were done:

Data analysis of pi+ pi- pi0 final state channel in two-gamma physics.
Started the Partial-Wave-Analysis in the pi+ pi- pi0 final state channel

June 1999 - October 1999

CERN

Was working in PNPI/CERN L3 gamma gamma analysis group. The following activities were done:

Was working with PCGEN Monte-Carlo generator.
Performed a2 resonance analysis.

October 1999 - May 2000
PNPI

Took part in development and preparation for the joint PNPI/JINR experiment on rare muon decays.

The following activities were done:

Monte-Carlo simulations of experimental setup.
DAQ electronics and programing.

December 1999 - February 2000
PNPI

Took part in PNPI/Osaka Univ.(Japan) joint experiment on study of polarization in Quasi-Elastic (p,2p) reactions on 6Li,7Li, 28Si.

August 1998 - May 1999

RR oy, Finland

Web design and development of RR oy corporative Web Site.

Internet address: http://www.rrouvari.fi/

October 1997 - August 1998: Took part of the MCU (Micro Controller Unit) Hitachi H8/300 programming work for the RR Oy. During this time test program was completed and was running onto both PC and MCU sides. The following activities were done.
July 1997 - October 1997: Worked as a temporary scientific associate in the Department de physique nucleaire et corpusculare. Was associated with the research group constructing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment (AMS) to be flown on NASA shuttle flight STS-91 from Kennedy Space Center, USA.
December - February 1997,1998,1999,2000: Participated in PNPI Winter School of Physics as a member of the organizing committee. Took care of WWW presentation of activities of the school. Some design work were made also. In this project were used knowledge of the HTML programming, Java and CGI scripting and etc.
November 1996 - June 1998: Made assembling and tuning of the local net service Windows 95 based. Installed Program Libraries, including different software for online and offline analysis, Routinely consulted users on CERNLIB and GEANT 3.24, and also maintained that local NET, consulted users.; Participated in investigation of rare decay modes of muon and also in muonium to antimuonium conversion. Made some calculation, simulation and analysis (using GEANT, fortran and C++) for the experimental setups. Made geometry optimization for the proposed experiment in obtaining more precise value for pion lifetime.; Took part in development and controlling of SMD kapton plates. Also developed Data-Base(ACCESS 95 based) for tests data storing. Participate in simulating of different experimental sets using GEANT.; Worked on CERN (Switzerland) Test-Beam. Participate in designing, developing and constructing cosmic rays test station for the testing of the CMS Tungsten crystals, activities concerned:; Start of scientific work in the MIT Muon Chamber group. Took part in assembling of Forward/Backward Muon Chambers:

References

Dr. Hert Viertel
Zurich-ETH
e-mail: Hert.Viertel@cern.ch

Dr. Ulrich Becker
MIT
e-mail: Ulrich.Becker@cern.ch

Dr. Joseph Burger
MIT
e-mail: Burger@vxcern.cern.ch

Dr. Victor Gordeev
Gatchina-PNPI
e-mail: gordeev@lnpi.spb.su

Mr. Risto Rouvari
RR Oy.
e-mail: risto.rouvari@rrouvari.fi

Maria Kienzle
Geneva Univ. Switzerland
e-mail: Maria.Kienzle@cern.ch

Valery Schegelsky
Gatchina - PNPI, CERN - Switzerland
e-mail: Valery.Schegelsky@cern.ch

List of Publications

Investigation of the rare and exotic modes of the muon and pion decay. Proposal Gatchina-Dubna-Moscow, 1996.
O.V. Miklukho et al., Proceedings of the international Conference "SPIN-97" (Dubna, July, 1997)E2-97-413, P.246.
O.V. Miklukho et al., Study of polarization in Quasi-Elastic (p,2p) reactions on ⁶Li, ⁷Li, ²⁸Si in complete kinematics at 1GeV., (Gatchina, PNPI, 1998) NP-63-1998, 2277.
O.V. Miklukho et al., Study of polarization in Quasi-Elastic (p,2p) reactions on ⁶Li in complete kinematics at 1 GeV. Nuclear Physics 2000-01. To be published.
V.A. Gordeev et al., Searches of the neutrinoless decay of muon. Project of experiment. (Gatchina, PNPI, 2000) NP-37-2000, 2380.
M. Levtchenko., Study of final state pi+pi-pi0 channel in two-gamma collisions. L3 Note 2001. To be published.