• B.S. 1985 University of Maryland
• Ph.D. (1991) University of Maryland

Research Interests:

Dr. Springer's current research interests are in the field of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Physics. He is involved in the development and exploitation of the High Resolution Fly's Eye detector (HiRes). This detector is looking for the most energetic particles yet to be observed in the cosmic ray spectrum.

Past research activity was in the field of experimental particle physics. He worked on the OPAL experiment at the Large Electron-Positron Accelerator (LEP) located at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN). There he was involved in the design, construction and implementation of several of the detector components of the OPAL experiment. He contributed to the measurement of the electroweak parameters related to the Z boson and the b quark. Dr. Springer was also involved in the search for the Higgs Boson at LEP.

Selected Recent Publications

• "Measurement of the Z0 Mass and Width with the OPAL Detector at LEP. The OPAL Collaboration" (M.Z. Akrawy et al.), 13 October 1989, CERN-EP/89-133, Phys. Lett. B 231, 530 (1989).
• "A Study Of Heavy Flavour Production using Muons in Hadronic Z0 Decays. The OPAL Collaboration" (M.Z. Akrawy et al.), 14 March 1991, CERN-PPE/91-48, Phys. Lett. B 263, 311 (1991).
• "Electroweak Parameters of the Z0 Resonance and the Standard Model. The LEP Collaborations: ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL 20" December 1991, CERN-PPE/91-232, Phys. Lett. B 276, 247 (1992).
• "Evidence for the Existence of the Strange b-flavour Meson Bs0 in Z0 Decays. The OPAL Collaboration" (P. Action et al.), 3rd September 1992, CERN-PPE/92-144, Phys. Lett. B 295, 357 (1992).
• "Measurement of Gamma (Z0 bb(bar)/Gamma Z0 Hadrons) using Leptons. The OPAL Collaboration" (P. Action et al.), 9th March 1993, CERN-PPE/93-46, Zeit. fuer Phys. C58, 523 (1993).
• "Combined Preliminary Data on Z Parameters from the LEP Experiments and Constraints on the Standard Model The LEP Electroweak Working Group and The LEP Collaborations: ALEPH, DELPHI, L3, OPAL. The OPAL Collaboration" (R. Akers et al.), 14th CERN-PPE/94-187 December 94.
• "Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in e⁺e^- Collisions at sqrt s =161-172 GeV. The OPAL Collaboration" (R. Akers et al.), 18th August 1997, CERN-PPE/97-115, submitted to Zeitshrift fur Physik.
• "Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons in the Minimal Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model. The OPAL Collaboration" (R. Akers et al.), September 1997, CERN-PPE/97-XXX , to be submitted to Zeit. fur Physik.