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Peter Winter

Physicist/Group Leader

Peter Winter is the Intensity Frontier Group Leader within Argonne’s High Energy Physics division.

Biography

Education

Dr. rer. nat.       2005, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany
Dipl. Phys.       2001, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany

Experience

2023 – present: Co-Spokesperson for the Muon g-2 Collaboration
2022 – present: Physicist, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
2019 – present: Intensity Frontier Group Leader, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
2017 – 2022: Associate Physicist, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
2012 – 2017: Assistant Physicist, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
2010 – 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington
2005 – 2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Research Center of Jülich, Germany
2000: Summer Student, CERN, Switzerland
1999: Summer Student, The Research Center of Jülich, Germany

Awards

2015: DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Award
2001: Günther-Leibfried Award, Research Center of Jülich

Research Interests

Tests of fundamental symmetries and the Standard Model
Precision measurements with muon

Publications

  • Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131, (2023), 161802
  • Measurement of proton, deuteron, triton, and α particle emission after nuclear muon capture on Al, Si, and Ti with the AlCap experiment, Phys.Rev.C 105 (2022) 3, 03550
  • High-accuracy absolute magnetometry with application to the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment, JINST 16 (2021) 12, P12041
  • Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm, Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 14, 141801
  • Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g−2 Experiment at Fermilab, Phys.Rev.A 103 (2021) 4, 042208
  • Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g−2 Experiment, Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 7, 072002
  • Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab, Phys.Rev.Accel.Beams 24 (2021) 4, 044002
  • Systematic and Statistical Uncertainties of the Hilbert-Transform Based High-precision FID Frequency Extraction Method, J.Magn.Resonance 329 (2021) 107020
  • Absolute Magnetometry with He3, Phys.Rev.Lett. 124 (2020) 22
  • Design and performance of an in-vacuum, magnetic field mapping system for the Muon g-2 experiment, JINST 15 (2020) 11, P11008
  • The calorimeter system of the new muon g -2 experiment at Fermilab, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A 824 (2016) 718-720
  • Measurement of the Formation Rate of Muonic Hydrogen Molecules, V.A. Andreev et al., Phys. Rev. 91, 05502 (2015)
  • Studies of an array of PbF2 Cherenkov crystals with large-area SiPM readout, A.T. Fienberg et al., Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A783, 12 (2015)
  • A high-pressure hydrogen time projection chamber for the MuCap experiment, J. Egger et al., Eur. Phys. J A 50, 163 (2014)
  • Detailed Report of the MuLan Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant, V. Tishchenko et al., Phys. Rev. D87, 052003 (2013)
  • Measurement of Muon Capture on the Proton to 1\% Precision and Determination of the Pseudoscalar Coupling gP, V.A. Andreev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 012504 (2013)
  • Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision, D.M. Webber et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 041803 (2011)
  • Generalized Dalitz plot analysis of the near-threshold pp -> ppK+K- reaction in view of the K+K- final state interaction, M. Silarski et al., Phys. Rev. C 80, 045202 (2009)
  • Measurement of Upsilon Production for p+p and p+d Interactions at 800 GeV/c, L.Y. Zhu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 062301 (2008)
  • Measurement of the Rate of Muon Capture in Hydrogen Gas and Determination of the Proton’s Pseudoscalar Coupling gP, V.A. Andreev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032002 (2007)
  • Improved Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant, D.B. Chitwood et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 032001 (2007)
  • Measurement of the dp -> 3He eta reaction near threshold, J. Smyrski et al., Phys. Lett. B 649, 258 (2007)
  • Hadronic 3He eta production near threshold, H.-H. Adam et al., Phys. Rev. C 75, 014004 (2007)
  • Mechanism of the close-to-threshold production of the eta meson, R. Czyzykiewicz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122003 (2007)
  • Threshold hyperon production in proton proton collisions at COSY-11, T. Rozek at al., Phys. Lett. B 643, 251 (2006)
  • Kaon pair production close to threshold, P. Winter et al., Phys. Lett. B 635, 23 (2006)
  • A method to disentangle single- and multi-meson production in missing  mass spectra from quasi-free pn -> pnX reactions, P. Moskal et al., J. Phys. G 32, 629 (2006)
  • Drift chamber with a c-shaped frame, J Smyrski et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 541, 574 (2005)
  • Total and differential cross sections for the pp -> pp eta’ reaction  near threshold, A. Khoukaz et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 20, 345 (2004)
  • Experimental study of pp eta dynamics in the pp -> pp eta reaction
  • P. Moskal et al., Phys. Rev. C 69, 025203 (2004)
  • Energy dependence of the Lambda/Sigma0 production cross section ratio in pp interactions, P. Kowina et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 22, 293 (2004)
  • Upper limit for the cross section of the overlapping scalar resonances f0(980) and a0(980) produced in proton proton collisions in the range of the reaction threshold, P. Moskal et al., J. Phys. G 29, 2235 (2003)
  • Analysing power A(y) in the reaction p(pol.)p ->  pp eta close to threshold, P. Winter et al., Phys. Lett. B 544, 251 (2002)
  • On the close to threshold meson production in neutron neutron collisions, P. Moskal et al., Phys. Lett. B 517, 295 (2001)