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Fermilab Tevatron near Chicago p collisions at s ~ 2 TeV ~4 miles circumference >1000 supercond. magnets New run began Mar 2001 World’s highest E accel. The D Ø Experiment ~500 phys. – 17 countries Large: ~10m x 10m x 10m Complex Detector
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Fermilab Tevatron near Chicago p collisions at s ~ 2 TeV ~4 miles circumference >1000 supercond. magnets New run began Mar 2001 World’s highest E accel. The DØ Experiment ~500 phys. – 17 countries Large: ~10m x 10m x 10m Complex Detector silicon, scint. fibers, superconducting solenoid, liquid argon… ~106 electronics channels Currently taking Data ! The DØ Experiment at Fermilab Columbia - Sep 2001
We build interesting things Calorimeter Electronics analog pipelines signal shaping Muon Trigger (L2) digital signal processors field program. gate arrays real time algorithms Silicon Tracking Trigger (L2) pioneering project reconstruction of tracks in real time Future Projects calorimeter trigger? … To answer basic questions Why is there more matter than antimatter? CP violation in the B system Why do particles have mass? Higgs discovery How is Electro-Weak symmetry broken? Higgs, top, precision meas… What is beyond the standard model? SUSY, technicolor, string theories… DØ at Columbia Columbia - Sep 2001
Postdocs Leslie Groer Georg Steinbrück Christos Leonidopoulos Students Chris Hays (grad 01) Mingcheng Gao Shaohua Fu Burair Kothari Tulika Bose The Columbia DØ Group Faculty Mike Tuts Hal Evans John Parsons Columbia - Sep 2001