Professor Roe works on the mini-BooNE experiment at Fermilab. This experiment searches for oscillations of muon neutrinos into electron neutrinos. A tentative signal for this oscillation was seen in a Los Alamos experiment and the present experiment will give a definitive test of this result. If these oscillations are present, they indicate that neutrinos have masses in the range to be a component of the dark matter in the universe. Furthermore, taking all the neutrino oscillation tests together, a positive result from mini-BooNE would imply a major extension of the Standard Model beyond the three presently known left-handed neutrinos and their Standard Model interactions. A positive result would then be a major modification of the Standard Model. Professor Roe’s group has responsibility for monitoring counters, for one of two software data analysis systems and for a beam Monte Carlo program.

Professor Roe is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Boasted Decision Trees, an Alternative to Neural Nets, submitted to Phys. Rev. (Sept, 2004).

Setting Confidence Belts, (B.P. Roe and M.B. Woodroofe), Phys. Rev. D 63, 013009-1-013009-9 (2001). Probability and Statistics in Experimental Physics, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (2001).

Standard Model Higgs Boson with the L3 Experiment at LEP (L3 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 517, 319-331 (2001).

Improved Probability Methods for Estimating Signal in the Presence of Background, (B.P. Roe and M.B. Woodroofe), Phys. Rev. D 60, 053009 (1999).

Measurement of Mass and Width of the W Boson at LEP (L3 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 454, 386-398 (1999).

Measurement of the Michel Parameters and the Average Tau Neutrino Helicity from Tau Decays at LEP (L3 Collaboration), Phys. Lett. B 438, 405-426 (1998).

Particle Physics at the New Millennium, Springer Verlag, New York, NY (1996).