Experimental High Energy Physics

Experiments which test/discover properties of fundamental particles and interactions...

Faculty: J. Brau, R. Frey, D. Strom, and E. Torrence
 

Experiments "finishing up" : e+ e- annihilation at high energy Understanding the Electroweak Interaction   SLD experiment at SLAC, E=90 GeV, - Z0 decays , precision SM tests OPAL experiment at CERN, Geneva, E=90 - 200 GeV - search for Higgs boson   neutrino physics at Fermilab: NuTeV experiment at Fermilab Electroweak physics with neutrino beams

Experiments taking data now and for many more years: BaBar at SLAC: Search for origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and probing New Physics in rare processes 60 journal papers in last 2 years LIGO: Search for gravitational waves and GW astrophysics Has ~reached design sensitivity and preparing for extended science data taking

Experiments for the future: BaBar: now-2010 LIGO: LIGO I thru 2009,  Advanced LIGO thru 2020 ? Next Linear Collider: Finding the origin of mass ("electroweak symmetry breaking"), exploring the HE frontier: Higgs? Supersymmetry? Unified theories? Extra dimensions? small black holes? Strings?

 

Serious students interested in this physics are welcome !