Education
Dartmouth College (B.A., Physics), 1983
University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S., Physics), 1985
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D., Physics), 1990
Specialties:
- Particle Astrophysics
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- Experimental
- Particles & Fields
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- Experimental
Honors and Awards
- ICS Faculty Fellow, 2012
- Fulbright Scholar, 2009
- Research Visit Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), 2008
- NSF CAREER, 1999
- Francis W. Sears Physics Prize, 1983
- Sigma Xi Prize, 1983
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1983
- Rufus Choate Scholar, 1982
- Francis L. Town Scientific Prize, 1981
Selected Publications
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), IceTop: The surface component of IceCube, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 700, (2013) 188-220. (Equal coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Lateral Distribution of Muons in IceCube Cosmic Ray Events, Phys. Rev. D 87, (2013) 012005. (Equal Coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube, Phys. Rev. D 87, (2013) 022001. (Equal Coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Searches for high-energy neutrino emission in the Galaxy with the combined IceCube-AMANDA detector, Astrophys. J. 763, (2013) 33. (Equal coauthor).
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program, Astron. Astrophys. 539, (2012) A60. (Equal coauthor).
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors, Phys. Rev. D 85, (2012) 042002. (Equal coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), A Search for UHE Tau Neutrinos with IceCube, Phys. Rev. D. 86, (2012) 022005. (Equal coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), An absence of neutrinos associated with cosmic-ray acceleration in gamma-ray bursts, Nature 484, (2012) 351-354. (Equal coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Search for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube, Astrophys. J. 748, (2012) 118. (Equal coauthor)
- R. Abbasi, et. al. (ICECUBE Collaboration), Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, (2011) 141101. (Equal coauthor).
Research Group Members
Current Postdocs: Timothy Arlen, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes De Andre
Current Graduate Students: Matthew Dunkman, Feifei Huang
Current Undergraduate Students: John Groh, Dylan Lutton, Melissa Quinnan.
Past Postdocs: Ken Clark, D. Jason Koskinen, Darren Grant, Dawn Williams, Pat Toale, Carsten Rott, Seon-Hee Seo, Brendan Fox.