mufs140 Stanley S. Hertzbach Papers Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by I. Eliot Wentworth. Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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Finding aid encoded in MSWord 2013-02-28 Finding aid written in English Hertzbach, Stanley S. Stanley S. Hertzbach Papers 1977-2002 FS 140 1 box, 6 vols. (1 linear foot) Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries A particle physicist educated at Johns Hopkins (PhdD, 1965), Stanley S. Hertzbach joined the Physics faculty at UMass Amherst in 1965 and took part in high-energy experimental work at Brookhaven, the CERN ISR, the Cornell electron synchrotron, and, beginning in 1979, at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). With his colleague Richard Koffler, Hertzbach joined the SLD collaboration at SLAC in 1986 studying Z particles, and the BaBar (B Meson) group in 1994. A major contributor to the SLD "beamline group," Hertzbach took part in the BaBar calorimeter beam test and in testing of its calorimeter modules. He was an active member of the SLD advisory group and chaired the SLAC Users Organization (SLUO) in the 1990s. Hertzbach's contributions to UMass included service on several committees relating to student achievement, including a stint as Undergraduate Advising Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Hertzbach retired from UMass in 2009.The Hertzbach collection consists of two distinct parts: six laboratory notebooks kept while conducting research at SLAC (1987-2002), and approximately 0.5 linear feet of records from university committees on which Hertzbach sat (e.g. the Space and Calendar, 1977-1983). English

The particle physicist Stanley S. Hertzbach joined the faculty at UMass Amherst in 1965 after receiving his doctorate at Johns Hopkins for "The experimental determination of the branching ratios for the decay of the po, w, and phi mesons into lepton pairs." He participated in high-energy experimental work at Brookhaven National Laboratories, the CERN hadron collider, the Cornell electron synchrotron, and, beginning in 1979, at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).

With his colleague Richard Koffler, Hertzbach joined the SLD collaboration at SLAC in 1986 studing Z particles, and the BaBar (B Meson) group in 1994. Within the SLD collaboration, which worked toward a Next Linear Collider from the standpoint of the machine and detector technologies, Hertzbach became a major contributor to the "beamline group," and he took part in the BaBar calorimeter beam test and in testing of its calorimeter modules. He was an active member of the SLD advisory group and chaired the SLAC Users Organization (SLUO) in the 1990s.

Hertzbach's contributions to UMass included service on several committees relating to student achievement, including a stint as Undergraduate Advising Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Hertzbach retired from UMass in 2009.

The Hertzbach collection consists of two distinct parts: six laboratory notebooks kept while conducting research at SLAC (1987-2002), and approximately 0.5 linear feet of records from university committees on which Hertzbach sat. The records for the Space and Calendar, 1977-1983, are focused primarily on the struggle within the university to accommodate religious holidays in the academic calendar.

The collection is open for research.

Cite as: Stanley S. Hertzbach Papers (FS 140). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Gift of Stanley S. Hertzbach, 2009 (2009-170).

Processed by I. Eliot Wentworth, Feb. 2013.

Hertzbach, Stanley S. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty. University of Massachusetts Amherst--Department of Physics. B mesons. Nuclear physics. Springdale Cemetery (Peoria, Ill.). Laboratory notes. SLAC Laboratory notebooks1986-20026 vols. SLAC notebook1986-1987 SLAC notebook1987-1990 SLAC notebook1988-1989 SLAC notebook1987-1988 SLAC notebook1990-1999 SLAC notebook1998-2002 UMass committee work1977-1986 Faculty Senate1983 Mar. 17 Space and Calendar Committee1977-1983 Space and Calendar Committee1978-1986 Space and Calendar Committee1980-1982 Space and Calendar Committee (Rosh Hashanah)1981-1983 Space and Calendar Committee1982-1983