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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics. Theory: Bigi, Delgado, Kolda 1 postdoc 5 students Experiment: Hildreth, Jessop, Lannon LoSecco, Ruchti, Wayne 3 research professors 4 (+1) postdocs 1 engineer, 3 technicians 7 students Outreach: Quarknet, GK-12, RET, REHS. Current Students. HEP Experiment.

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High Energy Physics

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  1. High Energy Physics • Theory: Bigi, Delgado, Kolda • 1 postdoc • 5 students • Experiment: Hildreth, Jessop, Lannon LoSecco, Ruchti, Wayne • 3 research professors • 4 (+1) postdocs • 1 engineer, 3 technicians • 7 students • Outreach: Quarknet, GK-12, RET, REHS

  2. Current Students HEP Experiment HEP Theory

  3. Chicago FERMILAB Accelerator Complex Booster p Tevatron p p source Main Injector & Recycler • CDF & DØ Experiments: • World’s highest energy particle collisions • Search for mechanism of mass generation (Higgs boson) • Direct searches for other New Physics • Precision measurements of fundamental particles • CDF & DØ Experiments: • Conceived/Constructed/Run DØ Central Fiber Tracker • Software Coordination • Trigger Upgrade Design & Commissioning • Physics: Precision EW Measurements, Higgs, Beyond SM Hildreth, Lannon, Ruchti, Wayne

  4. SLAC ACCELERATOR FACILITIES • International Linear Collider R&D: • ILC: explore New Physics at the TeV Scale with precision measurements • R&D: Detector Development at ND, FNAL, Accelerator Instrumentation at SLAC, KEK • BaBar Experiment: • Understanding the origins of matter in the Universe (CP Violation and the matter-anti-matter asymmetry) • Searching for new physics at high mass scales with precision measurements of rare processes • BaBar Experiment: • Software/Production Coordination • Design/Construct/Commision/Calibrate ECal • Commision/Operation of Upgraded Muon System • Physics: Radiative Penguins (bsg) Hildreth, Wayne Jessop, LoSecco

  5. World Travel CERN: The Large Hadron Collider • The CMS Experiment at the LHC: • Built/Commissioned HCAL electro-optic readout • ECalDAQ & Trigger Commissioning/Monitoring, EM/Photon ID • Simulation & Tracking Software; sLHC Upgrade R&D • Physics: Higgs, Top, Beyond SM searches • The CMS Experiment at the LHC: • World’s highest energy collisions (7x Tevatron) starting 2009 • Focus of High Energy Physics for the next decade • Search for breakdown of the Standard Model, New Physics at the TeV scale Hildreth, Lannon, Jessop, Ruchti, Wayne

  6. Chooz-far Chooz-near Chooz, France • Double Chooz Experiment: • reactor-produced neutrinos • Attempt to measure a fundamental parameter of the neutrino mass matrix (ne - nt mixing) • understand origin of neutrino masses • Double Chooz Experiment: • Software Coordination • Simulation Design • Phototube system design & calibration • Oscillation analysis techniques LoSecco

  7. Northern Indiana Bigi, Delgado, Kolda • Particle Theory: • Develop Tests of CP Violation in Nature • Develop models and tests of EW Symmetry Breaking, baryogenesis and mass generation • Develop more complete models of Nature: explain particle flavor, Dark Matter/Energy, etc. in the context of the Quantum Universe

  8. HEP: Future Directions • Possible Experimental Faculty Expansion: • Expert in Silicon Detector Development • Greatly enhance cross-disciplinary efforts in Department • especially connections with Astro-Particle efforts (LSST, etc.) • Important ingredient for LHC upgrades • Experimentalist with focus on Neutrino Physics • Enhance efforts in this under-represented area • Closer ties with expanding Fermilab program • Expert in Large-Scale Research Computing • Crucial ingredient for “modern” experiments • Closer ties with campus/regional computing efforts, resources • Follow opportunities: e.g. an ILC at Fermilab could motivate group expansion to take advantage of new local world-class facility

  9. HEP: Future Directions • Possible Directions for Theory Faculty Expansion: • Astroparticle Theory • Closer ties with Astrophysics, Nuclear Astrophysics • potential contribution to “Origins” center • String Theory Phenomenology • Complementary to current efforts, broaden focus • Closer ties with Mathematics

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