Postdoctoral Researchers

	Michael Trott PhD University of Toronto (2005) Particle Physics
	Position:	Postdoctoral Researcher
	Phone:	(519) 569-7600 x6641
	Email:	mtrott[at]perimeterinstitute.ca
	Personal Webpage:	http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/mtrott/

I was raised in Ontario and earned my B.Sc. (Joint Honours Physics/Math) at the University of Waterloo. I then earned a Ph.D at Toronto and did a post doctoral/surfing stint at University of California San Diego before joining PI as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. 

Affiliations

Perimeter Institute (2008-), UCSD (2005-2008), UofT (2000-2005) 

Positions Held

• 2008 - 2011 Post Doctoral Scholar Perimeter Institute
• 2005 - 2008 Post Doctoral Scholar UCSD

Recent Publications

• High pT Production of b\bar{b} at LHC and New SU(3) Bosons. Bartosz Fornal, Michael Trott, arxiv: 1001.4287, 2010-01-01
• Scalar Representations and Minimal Flavor Violation, Jonathan M. Arnold, Maxim Pospelov, Michael Trott, Mark B. Wise, arxiv: 0911.2225, 2009-11-01
• C.P. Burgess, Michael Trott and Saba Zuberi, Light Octet Scalars, a Heavy Higgs and Minimal Flavour Violation, JHEP 0909:082,2009, arxiv: 0907.2696, 2009-07-01
• C.P. Burgess, Hyun Min Lee and Michael Trott, Power counting and the Validity of the Classical Approximation During Inflation, JHEP 0909:103,2009. , arxiv: 0902.4465, 2009-02-01
• Maxim Pospelov and Michael Trott, R-parity preserving super-WIMP decays. JHEP 0904:044,2009. arxiv: 0812.0432, 2008-12-01
• Benjamin Grinstein, Michael Trott, Top quark induced vacuum misalignment in little higgs models. JHEP 0811:064,2008 arxiv: 0808.2814, 2008-08-01
• Benjamin Grinstein, Michael Trott, Electroweak Baryogenesis with a Pseudo-Goldstone Higgs. Phys.Rev.D78:075022,2008 arxiv: 0806.1971, 2008-06-01
• Sonny Mantry, Michael Trott, Mark B. Wise The Higgs decay width in multi-scalar doublet models. Phys.Rev.D77:013006,2008 arxiv: 0709.1505, 2007-09-01
• Sonny Mantry, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Michael Trott, New Physics Effects in Higgs Decay to Tau Leptons. Phys.Lett.B660:54-61,2008 arxiv: 0707.3152, 2007-07-01
• Benjamin Grinstein, Michael Trott, A Higgs-Higgs bound state due to new physics at a TeV. Phys.Rev.D76:073002,2007. arxiv: 0704.1505, 2007-04-01
• Michael Trott, Jets in Effective Theory: Summing Phase Space Logs. Phys.Rev.D75:054011,2007 hep-ph/0608300
• Michael Trott, Alexander R. Williamson Towards the anomalous dimension to O(Lambda(QCD)/M(b)) for phase space restricted anti-B ---> X(u) l anti-nu and anti-B ---> X(s) gamma. Phys.Rev.D74:034011,2006. hep-ph/0510203
• Christian W. Bauer, Zoltan Ligeti, Michael Luke, Aneesh V. Manohar, Michael Trott, Global analysis of inclusive B decays. Phys.Rev.D70:094017,2004 hep-ph/0408002
• Michael Trott, Improving extractions of |V(cb)| and m(b) from the hadronic invariant mass moments of semileptonic inclusive B decay. Phys.Rev.D70:073003,2004 hep-ph/0402120
• Christian W. Bauer , Michael Trott, Reducing theoretical uncertainties in m(b) and lambda(1). Phys.Rev.D67:014021,2003 hep-ph/0205039

Seminars

• Some early LHC physics opportunities consistent with Flavour constraints, ATLAS Canada Meeting, UToronto, 2009-12-01
• Physics Opportunities in the Early LHC era, Colloquium, York University, 2009-12-01
• Light Coloured Scalars, A Heavy Higgs and Minimal Flavour Violation, TRIUMF, 2009-11-01
• Light Octet Scalars, A Heavy Higgs and Minimal Flavour Violation, Carnegie Mellon U, 2009-10-01
• Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation, Caltech, 2009-08-01
• Light Octet Scalars, A Heavy Higgs and Minimal Flavour Violation, Berkeley, 2009-08-01
• Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation, UCSD, 2009-08-01
• Power Counting vs Higgs Inflation, PHENO09 U Wisconsin Madison, 2009-05-01
• Pseudo-Goldstone Baryogenesis?, U Wisconsin Madison, 2008-12-01
• Some Higgs Effective Field Theories for LHC, University of California, Berkeley,, 2008-02-01
• Higgs Effective Field Theories for LHC , University of Toronto, , 2007-09-01
• Higgs Effective Field Theory ,California Institute of Technology, March 2007. , 2007-03-01
• Sudakov Resummation and the SW Jet Definition in SCET , University of California, Berkeley, , 2007-03-01
• Establishing a Jet Definition in SCET , University of Toronto, 2007-01-01
• Global Analysis of Inclusive B decays: 1S scheme CKM 2006, 4th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, Nagoya University, Japan. , 2006-12-01