Ann Heinson


Ann Heinson is an American high-energy particle physicist known for her work on single top quark physics. She established and led the DØ Single Top Group which first published experimental observations of the top quark, and in 1997 she co-authored a paper which laid the foundations for further investigation into the top quark.
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Early life and education

Heinson grew up in Billericay, S.E. England. She earned both her B.Sc. in physics and Ph.D. in High Energy Physics from Imperial College.

Career and research

Heinson worked for the BBC's engineering research department before emigrating to California in 1989. There, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Irvine on a rare kaon decay experiment E791 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1992, she began working at the University of California Riverside as a Research Physicist where she worked on the DØ collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She established and led the DØ Single Top working group from 1995 to 2009. In 1997, she co-authored the paper "Single Top Quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron," which laid the conceptual foundations for the next decade of top quark experimental research. The observation of the production of single top quarks resulted from proton-antiproton collisions measured by the DZero detector which is the world's highest-energy particle collider.
In 2009, under her leadership the DØ published its first ever observation of single top quark production.
Under her leadership, the single top working group discovered the first evidence of single top quark production at Fermi Labs Tevatron.
Through 2008-11 Heinson was a fellow in the Division of Particles and Fields Distinction
and organization under American Physical Society
From 2010 to 2012 Heinson was participated in the American Association For The Advancement of Science as a fellow in section on Physics.
After 20 years of research at the University of California Riverside, she retired in 2012.

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