Sheldon Stone

• Member, FRA Board of Directors for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Group Leader of Experimental Elementary Particle Physics, Syracuse University

Education:

Brooklyn Technical High School (1959-1963)
Brooklyn College (1963-1967)
University of Rochester PhD in Physics (1972)

Mr. Stone is a member of the LHCb collaboration at CERN and is a former co-spokesperson of the CLEO collaboration (2007-2008). At the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he searched for I=2 mesons using Bubble Chambers and Streamer Chambers. During his time at Wilson Laboratory of Cornell University, he has been working with the CLEO collaboration since its beginning. He has made outstanding contributions both to detector hardware and physics analysis. He also participated in the design and construction of the dE/dx wire proportional chambers for the original detector. In addition to the above accomplishments Mr. Stone conceived of and led the construction of the CsI crystal calorimeter for the CLEO II upgrade. For CLEO III, he directed the design construction of the Ring Imaging Cherenkov Counter at Syracuse. His analysis efforts have been mostly in the areas of B meson decays, charm meson decays and Upsilon spectroscopy. This work includes the discovery of the B and Ds mesons and measurement of many properties of their decays. Recently he led the group that made the first observations of the purely leptonic decays D+ -> muon + neutrino, and Ds+ -> muon (or tau) + neutrino and measured their decay rates.

Currently Mr. Stone is a member of the board of directors of the Fermilab Research Alliance, and formally sat on the Fermilab Board of Overseers. He was elected co-spokesperson of the BTeV experiment at Fermilab and acted in this capacity from 1997 until 2005 when the activity was aborted.

Mr. Stone received Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement in February 2003. In addition he edited and contributed to the book "B Decays', both 1st and 2nd editions, published by World Scientific, Singapore.