Marko B Popović

 
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Journal
Papers:


M. B. Popovic (2011). "~115 GeV and ~143 GeV Higgs mass considerations within the Composite Particles Model," submitted to Physics Letters B on April 12, 2011; submitted to ArXiv.org hep-ph [1104.3111] on April 15, 2011, [download PDF]
Physicist at Fermilab's CDF experiment recently announced evidence of a peak (centered at 144 Gev) in a specific sample of its data (see announcement in The New York Times on April 5, 2011). This paper explains why the ~143.4 GeV mass is as expected.
Similarly, recent rumors in the physics blogosphere claim that ATLAS, one of the LHC’s all-purpose particle hunting experiments, caught a Higgs particle decaying into two high-energy photons at energy of 115 GeV (see post in Wired Magazine on April 21, 2011). This paper explains why the ~115.4 GeV mass is as expected.
Here is the latest version and comment on why I haven't published for a long time in particle physics journals.


M. B. Popovic (2010). "Thanks to 2D and maybe even beyond: 115 GeV and 140 GeV almost Standard Model Higgs without problems," version June 4, 2010,[download PDF] , July 11, 2010,[download PDF], July 18, 2010,[download PDF], and first time submission to the Physical Review D on July 25, 2010,[download PDF]
(to hopefully appear soon in the Physical Review D)

Lecture for non particle physicists PowerPoint or PDF and nice movie on CERN LHC Movie.


H. Herr and M. B. Popovic (2008). "Angular Momentum in Human Walking," Journal of Experimental Biology 211, pp 467-481.[download PDF] [Abstract]
(JEB insider review: JEB link and PDF )
(Cited by 35; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. Vukobratovic, H. Herr, B. Borovac, M. Rakovic, M. B. Popovic, A. Hofmann, M. Jovanovic and V. Potkonjak (2008). "Biological principles of control selection for a humanoid robot's dynamic balance preservation," International Journal of Humanoid Robotics Vol. 5, No. 4 (December 2008) pp 639-678 [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 9; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic, A. Goswami and H. Herr (2005). "Ground Reference Points in Legged Locomotion: Definitions, Biological Trajectories and Control Implications," International Journal of Robotics Research Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 1013-1032. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 79; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


A. Hofmann, M. B. Popovic and H. Herr (2002). "Humanoid Standing Control: Learning from human demonstration," Journal of Automatic Control, vol. 12, pp. 16-22. [download PDF]
(Cited by 8; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic (2001). "Third Generation Seesaw Mixing with new Vector-Like Weak-Doublet Quarks" Physical Review D, vol. 64, 035001. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 10; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic and E. H. Simmons (2000)."Weak-Singlet Fermions: Models and Constraints," Physical Review D, vol. 62, 035002. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 30; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic and E. H. Simmons (1998). "A heavy top quark from flavor-universal colorons", Physical Review D, vol. 58, 095007. (physics top cite, >60 citations: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/9806287 ) [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 120; source Google Scholar, June 2011)

Patents:


H. M. Herr, A. G. Hofmann and M. B. Popovic (Accepted December 25 2007)."Biomimetic motion and balance controllers for use in prosthetics, orthotics and robotics," US Patent 7,313,463; United States Patent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, Serial No.: 499853, Series Code: 11. , [download PDF].
(Cited by 8; source Google Scholar, June 2011)

Books


M. B. Popovic, English to Serbian book translation (2002); authors Brian Southworth and Georges Boixader, first edition 1978. "The world of particles" European Organization for Nuclear research, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN Desktop Publishing, 2002, 67 pages.

Book
Chapters:


M. B. Popovic and H. Herr (2006). "Ground Reference Points in Legged Locomotion: Definitions, Biological Trajectories and Control Implications," Mobile Robots Towards New Applications, Edited by A. Lazinica, pp. 79-104, ARS/pIV, Germany, December 2006. [download PDF]

Refereed
Proceedings:


S. B. Kesner, L. Jentoft, F. L. Hammond, R. D. Howe and M. B. Popovic (2011). "Design Considerations for an Active Soft Orthotic System for Shoulder Rehabilitation" Submitted (on April 15, 2011) and accepted (on June 9, 2011) to 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference , August 30 - September 02, 2011, Boston, USA.[download PDF]


A. Hofmann, M. B. Popovic and H. Herr (2009). "Exploiting Angular Momentum to Enhance Bipedal Center-of-Mass Control" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , May 12 - 17, 2009, Kobe, Japan. [download PDF]
(Cited by 13; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


S. Seitinger, E. Sylvan, O. Zuckerman, M. B. Popovic, and O. Zuckerman, (2006). "New Playground Experience: Going Digital?", International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , CHI 2006, April 22-27, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ACM Press, pp. 303-308. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 14; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic and H. Herr (2005). "Global Motion Control and Support Base Planning," International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 8; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic, A. Hofmann and H. Herr (2004). "Zero spin angular momentum control: definition and applicability," Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Santa Monica, CA. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 25; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic, A. Englehart and H. Herr (2004). "Angular Momentum Primitives for Human Walking: Biomechanics and Control," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, pp. 1685-1691. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 22; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


A. Hofmann, M. B. Popovic, S. Massaquoi and H. Herr (2004). "A Sliding Controller for Bipedal Balancing Using Integrated Movement of Contact and Non-Contact Limbs," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, pp.1952-1959. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 37; source Google Scholar, June 2011)


M. B. Popovic, A. Hofmann and H. Herr (2004). "Angular Momentum Regulation during Human Walking: Biomechanics and Control," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A., pp. 2405-2411. [download PDF] [Abstract]
(Cited by 48; source Google Scholar, June 2011)

Research
Abstracts:


M. B. Popovic
, A. Englehart and H. Herr (2004). "The partition of Spin Angular Momentum in Human Walking," Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology & Kinesiology, Boston, MA, pp. 117. [download PDF]


M. B. Popovic, A. Seyfarth, and H. Herr (2002). "Angular Momentum Conservation in Human Movement," The IVth World Congress of Biomechanics, August 2002, Calgary, Alberta. [download PDF]


M. B. Popovic, W. Gu and H. Herr (2002). "Conservation of Angular Momentum During Human Locomotion," Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Research Abstracts, September 2002, pp. 231-232. [download PDF]
(Cited by 2 +9=11; source Google Scholar, Feb 09)

ArXiv-ed
Papers:


M. B. Popovic
, Plenary Talk, (November 2000) "Top-Bottom Color and Weak-Doublets Seesaw", "Thinkshop2 - top quark physics for RUN II & beyond", Fermilab, Illinois, USA. lanl.arXiv.org, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0102027. [download PDF]
(Cited by 3; source Google Scholar, Sep 09)


M. B. Popovic
, (2002). "The Standard Model hierarchy, fine-tuning, and negativity of the Higgs mass squared," lanl.arXiv.org, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0204345. [download PDF]
(Cited by 3; source Google Scholar, Feb 09)

Based on theoretical reasoning and a bit of intuition, in above paper I explain why I expect Higgs mass to be either ~115GeV or ~140GeV. Accidentally, folks at CERN observed a few suspicious events around 115GeV just before the LEP complex was shutdown in 2000 (when installation of the CERN's LHC began). Current (December 2007) experimental lower limit on the Higgs mass is still 114GeV.

Cern Press Release (September 2001):"...a number of events compatible with a Higgs boson production with mass around 114-115 GeV was reported in the combined results of the four LEP experiments, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL. However, the topology of these events is also compatible with originating from other known standard model processes. As a consequence, it is at present impossible either to rule out or confirm the existence of a 114-115 GeV Higgs boson..."

P. Renton "Has the Higgs boson been discovered?", Nature 428 (March 2004):"...There is some evidence (although statistically not very significant) for its detection at a mass of about 115 GeV/c2, from electron-positron interactions at LEP (the Large Electron Positron collider). Indirect methods can also be used to constrain the mass of the Higgs boson, because it affects other observable quantities (for example, the mass of the W boson and some measurable properties of the Z boson). An indirect determination of the Higgs boson mass from the most recent measurements of such quantities yields a value compatible with 115 GeV/c2, but with some important caveats arising from inconsistencies in the present data."


M. B. Popovic (2001). "Upper Limit on the Higgs Particle Mass," lanl.arXiv.org, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0106355. [download PDF]